New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in ...

The Western Isles is the council area with the most Gaelic speakers in Scotland Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on ...

Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day. The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, ...

Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...

All over the world, there are people who have roots in Scotland. There are even some settlements in far-off countries that celebrate their Scottish heritage thanks to our huge diaspora. As recently ...

A series of bilingual street signs, with distinctive Gaelic typefaces, have gone missing from streets around Dún Laoghaire. Fine Gael councillor Lorraine Hall was contacted by two separate residents’ ...

Scottish Gaelic has been spoken as an indigenous language in Scotland for thousands of years, and it is as different from English as Japanese is and equally hard to learn. Once spoken in much of ...

Young musicians (aged 9-12) from Edinburgh and Cork are breaking new grounds with a unique hybrid international hip-hop collaboration, blending Irish and Scottish Gaelic in a creative celebration of ...

People will need to “change the script” on Scottish Labour after the party’s surprise win in Hamilton, the party’s leader has said. Davy Russell took the seat vacated by the death of Scottish ...