Modern Irish: Free Web Sources

Training and other resources for translators, editors and for everyone who writes in Irish

Electronic Dictionary of the Irish language

Independent Irish Dictionary

National Terminology Database for Irish

comprehensive catalogue featuring all new plays in Irish (including new versions, translations and refurbishments) that featured professional companies, venues, festivals of commercial producers and one-off producers in Ireland from 1901 to today

Portraits of Irish-Language Writers

There are 1,757 biographies on this site. All of the featured lives, from 1560 to the present day, had a connection to the Irish language. The contents of the site are based on the series Beathaisnéis by Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú.

Project to initiate the digitization of the National Folklore Collection (NFC)

Foras na Gaeilge is the North/South implementation body set up under the Good Friday Agreement to carry out all the designated responsibilities regarding the Irish language.

A parallel corpus of aligned segments from Irish legislative texts and from European Union legislation. The search engine allows the user to search an aligned parallel corpus of legislative texts.

The Placenames Database of Ireland was created by Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge in collaboration with The Placenames Branch (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht). This is a comprehensive management system for data, archival records and placenames research conducted by the State.

News portal serving the Irish language community, in Ireland and internationally; includes
The latest stories – from Irish language, national and international news to sport, business and the arts, as well as news reports and special features funded by the Irish Language Broadcast Fund from 2010 to 2011.

Information on the origins and meanings of over 30,000 place-names from all over Northern Ireland.

Established to provide a full-service radio service for the Gaeltacht community and Irish speaking speakers throughout the country, since April 1972.

The National Irish language Public Service Broadcaster

Find and view descriptions and images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library.

Digital versions of two of the gems surviving from the monasteries of Reichenau and St. Gall. One is the unique architectural drawing known as the Plan of St. Gall. The other is the extensive ninth-century library collections of the two monasteries, identifiable by their distinctive script.

Corpus of Electronic Texts. A searchable online textbase consisting of over 18 million words, in 1617 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts. From UCC

There are four major sections: Images (digitised pictures of interest to Celticists), Text Archive (links to PDF files of rare material), Celtic Noticeboard (an area devoted to announcements of forthcoming conferences, events, vacancies, publications etc.) and Celtic journals (tables of contents of Celtic Studies journals).

Access to the medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen

from UCC

Digitized Medieval manuscripts (App). Links to digital repositories containing digitized western medieval manuscripts from all over the world

Digital images of Irish manuscripts

from Georgetown Unversity

Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland 5th to 12th Centuries

A tool (2017 version) for facilitating research on Early Irish prose and prose-and-verse tales.

An on-line research and teaching tool for Early and Medieval Irish from School of Irish, Celtic Studies, UCD