Online resources

Online resources

The present section is intended to convey an impression of the wealth of material available on Irish on the internet. Some of this is concerned directly with the Irish language and some is of a more general nature. All the links provided here were operating when this module was last updated (April 2026). Unfortunately, some websites have been discontinued and valuable information contained in them is no longer accessible to the public, e.g. the Irish Resources in the Humanities website no longer exists. In some other cases the information has been rearranged and/or the URL has changed slightly without a redirection being put in place from the old address to the new address, e.g. “https://www.ucc.ie/celt” became “https://celt.ucc.ie/” but without a redirection from the former to the latter.

Language resources

Acmhainn (Irish language resources)
Gaeilge ar an Ghréasán (Irish on the Internet)
Language Centre, Maynooth University
Speech synthesis
Irish spell checker
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies – online material
Royal Irish Academy – Digital Repository of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy – The Doegen Recordings
Caint Ros Muc – online recordings
Iorras Aithneach – Taifeadtaí Cainte (Speech tapes)
UCD Cultural Heritage Program

Dictionaries, databases, portals

Irish lexicographical resources on the internet
Dictionary and Language Library
Focal – terminology database from Dublin City University
Dictionary of the Irish Language (Old and Middle Irish)
Corpus of Electronic Texts
Irish Script on Screen
Early Irish Glossaries Project
Celtic Digital Initiative
Irish Humanities Alliance
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Government departments and official services

Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht
Údarás na Gaeltachta
Foras na Gaeilge
Placenames Database of Ireland
An Coimisinéir Teanga

Radio

Raidió na Gaeltachta
Raidió na Life
Blas (feature on BBC Northern Ireland)

Television

TG4 (Irish television channel)

Acmhainn (Irish language resources)

Website: http://www.acmhainn.ie

Gaeilge ar an Ghréasán – Irish on the Internet

A list of Irish sources on the internet, provided by the Scottish Gaelic College, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.

Website: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html

Irish Language Resource, Language Centre, Maynooth University

Website: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/larionad-gaeilge-centre-irish-language

Speech synthesis for Irish

This is a project developed by the staff of the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory in Trinity College Dublin.

Website: https://www.abair.tcd.ie/

GaelSpell – spell checker for Irish

This is a project developed by Prof. Kevin Scannell formerly of Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri. For more information, please consult his website at https://kevinscannell.com/.

Website: http://www.gaelspell.com/

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies – online material

Website: http://www.celt.dias.ie/publications/cat/online.html

Royal Irish Academy – Digital Repository of Ireland

Website: http://www.ria.ie

Royal Irish Academy – The Doegen Recordings

Website: https://www.ria.ie/collections/archival-collections/doegen-recordings/

Caint Ros Muc – online recordings

Website: https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-publications-2/caint-ros-muc/

Iorras Aithneach - Taifeadtaí Cainte (speech tapes)

Website: https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-publications-2/celt-the-irish-of-iorras-aithneach-county-galway/

UCD Cultural Heritage Program

University College Dublin in a major repository of audio recordings and folklore material. Information about the resources they are maintaining – here the Irish sound archives – can be found at the following address.

Website: https://ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/