Belfast, Northern ... place names come from Gaelic… We are using words in our language every day that come from the Gaelic language. We are steeped in it.” On a nearby wall hangs a map of ...

DUBLIN, Ireland ... place names no longer have legal standing and may not be used in government documents or on official Ordnance Survey maps. The switch also applies in a few official Gaelic ...

Mr. McAuley is a testament to just how far the Irish language, or Irish Gaelic, has come in Northern Ireland ... he loves maps and enjoys tracing the origins of place names.

THE impact that Irish language has had on communities in Belfast is illustrated in a new Gaelic map of the city ... "The colourful map of place names in Belfast is a tremendous piece of work ...

Dr Frances Kane studies the origins of Northern Ireland's place names Belfast ... and soldier who was instrumental in the defeat of the Gaelic Irish clans of Ulster in the 17th Century.

Protestants in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government Tuesday vetoed a Catholic plan to introduce a bill promoting Gaelic. The little-spoken language is promoted by Northern Ireland’s ...

The legal map of Ireland has changed ... which means in Gaelic, the well of Ara. Another law specifies the proper Gaelic versions and spellings of hundreds of place names outside the Gaeltacht ...

Travelling Ireland means reading a landscape that talks two languages--one an original; the other, its slang-like echo. James Joyce was obsessed with the meaning and sound of Irish place-names.

Belfast, Londonderry, Slemish, Anahorish - just some of the place names that reflect the mixed linguistic heritage of Northern Ireland ... in the defeat of the Gaelic Irish clans of Ulster ...