Explore: Irish And English (old)

In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official

Norman Irish or Hiberno-Normans (Irish: Normánach; Old Irish: Gall 'foreigners') is a modern term for the descendants of Norman settlers who arrived during

forebear to Modern Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. Old Irish is known for having a particularly complex system of morphology and especially of allomorphy

Old English (Englisc or Ænglisc, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ] or [ˈæŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in

say the English wordform comes from Old Irish cros. Other sources say the English comes from Old French crois and others say it comes from Old Norse kross

Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades

grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological

Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern

Irish has numerous loanwords from English. The native term for these is béarlachas (Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲeːɾˠl̪ˠəxəsˠ]), from Béarla, the Irish word

The Old English Bulldog is an extinct breed of dog. The Old English Bulldog was compact, broad and muscular, as reflected in the painting Crib and Rosa