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 ...

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.

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 ...

and Gaelic-medium education. [ Paul Gillespie: UK is struggling to choose between competing constitutional models, and that affects usOpens in new window ] Northern Ireland is not treated in ...

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.