This month the Dictionary of Irish Biography is publishing 22 new and updated biographical entries of important Irish figures ...

Popular English idioms such as ‘spill the beans’ are evolving as they pass from one generation to the next, according to the ...

Mary Lou McDonald, Simon Pegg and Paloma Faith are among the guests who will feature on this week’s Late Late Show.

Within minutes of finishing The Secret Room, the 12th novel in Jane Casey’s Detective Sergeant Maeve Kerrigan series, I had ...

The Liverpool English dictionary provides an extensive record of words and phrases associated with this city's unique dialect ...

But the word is, or used to be, a recognised put-down in Tipperary, at least. Diarmaid Ó Muirithe’s Dictionary of Anglo-Irish ...

Youngsters who go to bed earlier and sleep for longer periods have greater brain function and may perform better in tests, a ...

There are many lessons you could take from Pat Naughton, who was laid to rest in his native Nenagh on Wednesday at the age of 92, but the biggest is that we don’t stop competing because we grow old; ...

The lessons progress like any foreign language course. Start with food and water and how to get them. Gloine uisce, le do ...

The UK’s primary language is of course English, and has been for many hundreds of years. The tongue has evolved as many ...

Penman does not impose an all-encompassing thesis. He avoids reading Satie’s life through the often overstated lenses of his ...

Former Dancing With The Stars judge Julian Benson was yesterday described as “a positive personality who made everything more ...