Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels. That’s because ...

Language experts recently looked through hundreds of baby names to find which were the most pleasing to the ear, and an Irish ...

The same announcer called a horse named Lisheen (after a townland in Tipperary) Lie-sheen -- it’s actually Lish-heen. There are lots of place names Americans have problems pronouncing properly. Now I ...

The Merriam-Webster account on X, known for snappier and snarkier posts than are usually associated with dictionary publishers, recently managed to provoke some ire from the Irish by answering its own ...

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, Hollywood actors turned Wrexham football club owners, have shared a hilarious video of Reynolds' attempts to pronounce the name of newly-signed Irish player Eoghan ...