evidence: A BRITISH MP has addressed the UK’s House of Commons in Irish for the first time in more than 100 years. [...] I understand this is the first time the Irish language has been spoken in the @HouseofCommons chamber.#NorthernIrelandBill pic.twitter.com/dlcEnaCR8Q — Liz Saville Roberts AS/MP (@LSRPlaid) October 24, 2018 "Is cearta daonna iad cearta teanga agus tá cothrom na féinne tuilte ag lucht labhartha na Gaeilge," said Ms Saville Roberts. [...] The politician’s address, during a debate on Northern Ireland, is believed to be the first in Irish at the House of Commons by a sitting MP for more than a century.