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There was a Monday morning towards the end of 1995 when Lee Carsley, then a 21-year-old midfielder with Derby County, was reflecting on his absence from the first team the previous Saturday. Carsley ...

Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are learning English. Some even go abroad to study, with an increasing number coming to Ireland. The country's language schools say they are busier ...

Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update. The OED is ...

Irish pals Sean O'Shea and Michael Orr are on a mission to donate their Irish language board game Botín to every school on the island of Ireland. O'Shea and Orr describe Botín, which they believe is ...

The question of how to govern Ireland was one of the most difficult and sensitive issues of Elizabeth's reign. By the time of her death, the country had forged a new and distinct identity of its own.