Should Irish Be Capitalized?

You should capitalize the names of countries, nationalities, and languages because they are proper nouns—English nouns that are always capitalized.

Are language names capitalized?

(c) The names of languages are always written with a capital letter. ... Note, however, that names of disciplines and school subjects are not capitalized unless they happen to be the names of languages: I'm doing A-levels in history, geography and English.

Do we capitalize names of subjects?

Also, names of school subjects (math, algebra, geology, psychology) are not capitalized, with the exception of the names of languages (French, English). ... You should capitalize titles of people when used as part of their proper name.

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