Sir, – I concur with Hilda Geraghty on the beauty of Irish script (Letters, April 29th). I did my Leaving Cert in 1959 and used the buailte or séimhiú when writing in Irish. I never accepted the H of ...

The symbols we use to write words evolve to become visually simpler over time, and an analysis of a writing system from West Africa shows that they can do so over just a few generations. The script ...

A chara, – I was glad to see a reference to the two scripts of Irish (Letters, April 28th), the Cló Romhánach and the Cló Gaelach. Many younger people are unaware that Irish had this elegant, simpler ...

Charlie Brooker has built a TV writing career imagining ways in which technology will disrupt human life, and now the Black Mirror creator has voiced anxiety about how AI will change writing processes ...