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The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 (c. 45) is an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom providing "official recognition of the status of the Irish language " in Northern Ireland, with Ulster Scots being an officially recognised minority language. The act was first envisioned as an Irish Language Act (Irish: Acht na Gaeilge ...
Under the Identity and Language Act of 2022, Irish is recognised as an official language in Northern Ireland. [ 130 ] [ 131 ] 6,000 people (0.3%) in Northern Ireland claim to use Irish as their main home language according to the 2021 UK Census with 71,900 people being able to speak Irish (circa 4% of population) and 228,600 people overall in ...
As in other parts of Ireland, Irish was the main language in the region of present-day Northern Ireland for most of its recorded history [citation needed].The historic influence of the Irish language in Northern Ireland can be seen in many place names, for example the name of Belfast first appears in the year 668, and the Lagan even earlier ("Logia", Ptolemy's Geography 2,2,8).
The main aim of the strategy was stated to be to increase the number of daily Irish speakers in Ireland to 250,000 by 2030. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 2011 census this number was 77,185. By the time of the 2016 census , more than a quarter of the life of the strategy having passed, it had dropped to 73,803, and in the 2022 census , it had dropped ...
An Coimisinéir Teanga ('The Language Commissioner') is an office created by the Official Languages Act 2003 in Ireland to promote and safeguard the respective language rights of Irish and English speakers in Ireland. The Coimisinéir is appointed by the President of Ireland.
English. New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) is a 9 January 2020 agreement which restored the government of the Northern Ireland Executive after a three-year hiatus triggered by the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal. [1][2][3] It was negotiated by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Julian Smith and Irish Tánaiste Simon Coveney. [4][5][6] On 11 ...
In Northern Ireland, English is the primary language for 95% of the population, and de facto official language, while Irish is recognised as an official language and Ulster Scots is recognised as a minority language under the Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022. [4] [5]
Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ l ɪ k / GAY-lik), [3] [4] [5] is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 3 ] It is a member of the Goidelic language group of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous to the island of Ireland ...