Our translators' pick of useful sites for Irish terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context.

National websites

Irish institutional sites

• Irish constitution: Irish or English version
• Irish government (EN-GA)
• Irish law (EN-GA)
• Irish law — not yet on Parliament site (EN-GA)
• National Governing Body of the Irish Language (EN-GA)
• Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (EN-GA)
• Irish Language Commissioner (EN-GA)

Other links from Ireland

• Irish on the web — a useful list of Irish language links

Libraries

• National Library of Ireland (EN-GA)

Style and grammar guides, language campaigns

• Comprehensive Irish grammar [944 KB]
• Resources for Irish-language translators and editors
• Guidelines for translators — An Gúm publishers
• Anglicisms in Irish
• Ireland's constitution — linguistic study (EN-GA)
• Irish terminology handbook [347 KB] — Irish Language Terminology Committee
• Notes on lenition — Irish Language Terminology Committee
• Irish language grammar and spelling
• Editing guidelines for translators (DCAL)
• Irish styleguide — An Gúm publishers
• How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Dictionaries & encyclopedias

• Mini monolingual Irish dictionary and verb conjugator
• Electronic dictionary of Irish — Royal Academy of Ireland
• Irish-language semantic network (different formats)

Bilingual dictionaries

• Dinneen's dictionary
• English-Irish dictionary

Term banks & glossaries

• Irish national terminology database (EN-GA)
• Corpus of English to Irish translations
• Aligned corpus of English to Irish translations — legislative texts
• Irish placenames database (EN-GA)
• Irish language database (EN-GA)
• The New Corpus for Ireland — corpus of Irish-language texts