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Language resources and useful links for Irish
Our translators' pick of useful sites for Irish terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context.
National websites
Irish institutional sites
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Irish constitution
(EN-GA) - 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
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Comprehensive Irish grammar
- Resources for Irish-language translators and editors (Aistear.ie)
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Guidelines for translators — An Gúm publishers
- Anglicisms in Irish (Lorg an Bhéarla)
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Ireland's constitution — linguistic study (EN-GA)
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Irish terminology handbook(346 Kb)
— Irish Language Terminology Committee - Notes on lenition — Irish Language Terminology Committee
- Irish-language grammar and spelling
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Revised official Irish-language standard
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Editing guidelines for translators (DCAL)
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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
- English-Irish dictionary (Foclóir.ie)
- Collection of Irish dictionaries and thesaurus (Pota Focal)
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) (Acmhainn.ie)
- The New Corpus for Ireland — corpus of Irish-language texts