Library Guides: Literature in the Irish Language: Irish Language

Dictionaries

Foclóir.ie

Foclóir.ie, the New Irish-English Dictionary from Foras na Gaeilge, is an online dictionary with a number of features for integrating the dictionary in a browser or webpage.

The website Teanglann.ie is being developed to include dictionaries, grammar sources and a pronunciation database.

téarma.ie
The National terminology database for Irish.

English-Irish Dictionary by Tomás de Bhaldraithe (ed.)
Call Number: PB 1291 .D286
Publication Date: 1959
Standard English-Irish dictionary. There are copies in the circulating and reference collections.
Irish-English Dictionary (Focloir Gaeilge Bearla)) by Niall O'Donaill, Tomás de Bhaldraithe
Call Number: PB 1291 .F57 1992
ISBN: 1857910370
Publication Date: 1992
Circulating and reference (in-library use) copies.

About Irish

Information on the history of the Irish language can be found on the Irish Libraries' Ask About Ireland website and on Foras na Gaeilge's website:

Ask About Ireland: Stair na Gaeilge by Bríona Nic Dhiarmada. (English translation: Irish Language and Literature.)

Internet and Computing

scriobh.ie
A guide and directory of resources for writing in Irish and for Irish on the Internet. It includes links and advice on dictionaries, grammar, keyboards, typefaces and pronunciation.