W hat comes to mind when you think of Irish words? Maybe begorra, an alteration of “by God,” or shillelagh, a blackthorn ...

Have you ever wondered about the interesting names of common things hidden in plain sight? Some of these words roll off the ...

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The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

An 18-year-old has finally solved a puzzle which has stumped him for three years despite asking his parents and ChatGPT for ...

Alex Hodges's TikTok videos "yapping" with her infant daughter went viral. Child development experts say she's doing ...

From smithereens to tory, there are many common words that you probably didn’t realise have Irish roots. The Irish language, or Gaeilge, was once the predominant language of Ireland and it ...

Being called 'an Akron guy' by John Groce is a badge of honor for Zips men's basketball players. Akron meets Arizona in the ...

A new study has uncovered how the brain seamlessly transforms sounds, speech patterns, and words into the flow of everyday conversations.

Irish freely adopted Latin vocabulary during the Christianisation of the country, especially to describe religion, education and daily life ...

Learning a language is hard. Whether it’s pronunciation, accents, verb conjugation or definitions, it’s hard to wrap your ...

With Seachtain na Gaeilge here, Fáilte Ireland is celebrating the beauty of our native language by reinvigorating five ...