There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...

It’s been 125 years since the formation of the Conradh na Gaeilge, the revival of Irish Gaelic, and to celebrate, Irish Fest organizers are making the language a special focus at the festival. Irish ...

A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to ...

The Celtic languages spoken today – namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton – all descend from Celtic languages once spoken across Britain and Ireland in antiquity. While the ...

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

The first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland is being made. Ancient Celtic languages were spoken before the Romans came to Britain, and are where modern Celtic ...