The first Gaelic poet has been appointed as Scotland's Makar. Lewis-born Peter Mackay says he is keen to use his new role as the national poet to champion his native tongue, but not at the expense ...

May Day, or Beltane, is a Gaelic and Celtic festival dating back to the Middle Ages. The festival honors the start of summer, as spring is halfway over. International Workers' Day dates back to ...

Mairi Mhor nan Oran - or Great Mary of the Songs - was a poet whose work demonstrated resistance to authority and hope and optimism for the Gaelic people. Now, 125 years after her death, she will ...

Today features a powerful reflection on love from Scotland's other great linguistic roots, Gaelic. The poem, by Gaeldom's twentieth-century master, Sorley MacLean, is translated by fellow Gael ...

This beautiful poem, "Death is Nothing at All", honoring the departed was adapted by Irish monks and make popular, used often at Irish funerals, the Carmelite monks in Tallow, County Waterford.

The poem endows it with the dignity and power of art. Art is self-expression: It comes from you. But what you create is not you. It might represent what you wish to be or fear you will become.

More than 1.3 million Irish citizens still speak Gaelic—and whether you know it or not, you do too! Here are 8 Gaelic words that are proud to be Irish.

Gaelic poet Peter MacKay has been appointed as Scotland's fifth Makar. Picture: Lesley Martin/PA Wire | PA. ... He said: “My mother still has a poem I wrote when I was four years old.

Gaelic football fans have been in video game purgatory hoping someone to take the reins and bring the sport back from the dead in virtual form. The last game was released back in 2007 when ...

It’s unusual for a poem to have an exact date of composition. In the case of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, or Lament for Art O’Leary, we know it to have been May 4th, 1773, the date when ...

The first Gaelic poet has been appointed as Scotland's Makar. Lewis-born Peter Mackay says he is keen to use his new role as the national poet to champion his native tongue, but not at the expense ...