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Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin (pronounced Kee-veen O Cree-awn) is an Irish artist who has exhibited widely around Ireland. His work consists of drawings and paintings and features cityscapes of Dublin, images based on Irish history and other work with social/political themes.
 

Oireachtas na Gaeilge

Oireachtas na Gaeilge
Oireachtas na Gaeilge is an annually held arts festival of Irish culture, which has run since the 1890s. Oireachtas na Gaeilge runs for one week, featuring performances, demonstrations and competitions. The festival is held in two portions: a visual arts festival in April/May and the festival proper on the last weekend of October or the first of November.

Na Cnocadoirí

Na Cnocadóirí
Regular hillwalking in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains for Irish speakers and those learning the language.

Siúlóidí rialta i sléibhte Bhaile Átha Cliath agus Chill Mhantáin
Deirí seachtaine cnocadóireachta agus imeachtaí eile

Seachtaine na Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge
Seachtain na Gaeilge ('Week of Irish') is a non-profit organisation, which promotes the use of Irish language and culture both at home and abroad within a two-week festival held in March every year. The festival has built up incredible momentum in recent years, becoming the largest celebration of our native language and culture held in Ireland every year and sweeping other countries up in the whirlwind along the way.

Club Sult

Club Sult
Borabu is a not-for-profit, voluntary organisation that organises and runs Irish language social events in Dublin. Club Sonas is an informal, inclusive social club which was set up in response to the demand in Dublin for Irish language events. It is aimed not only at Irish speakers, but also at those learning the language and anyone interested in Irish and world music and dance. All are very welcome!
 

TG4

TG4
TG4 is a TV Channel for Irish-language speakers. The channel is amazing, giving us original broadcasting as well as South Park in Irish. Their website is one of the most up to date as well. A great resource for learners and Irish language speakers.

Raidió Rí-Rá

Raidió Rí-Rá is a Top 40 music station broadcasting totally in Irish! With all the biggest hits in English from the charts mixed in with Irish–language songs from the Ceol albums, you can also get your Gaeilge up to speed with PopNuacht celebrity stories, the latest news on gigs, and Ireland’s Official Top 40 through Irish online at www.rrr.ie 24/7.

Beo

Beo.com
Irish Language Internet Magazine for Irish Speakers in Ireland and worldwide.

Radio na Life

Radió na Life
Raidió na Life is a community-of-interest radio station set up to provide a community-oriented Irish language radio service to the Irish-speaking community of Dublin and surrounding areas on a non-profit basis. Community and education are some of the key pillars of Raidió na Life's broadcasting philosophy. You can listen to the station live online too!

Foinse

Foinse
A weekly newspaper that is available every Saturday from newsagents "Foinse" means source, a high quality source of current affairs, business, sport and education Also included in Foinse are travel items, health matters, music and television Foinse is distributed nationally and approximately 10,000 copies are sold weekly. (Is currently out of print, but watch this space)

RTÉ Radio na Gaeltachta

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
Radio of the Gaeltachta abbreviated RnaG, is the Irish-language radio service of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) in Ireland (the national broadcaster), and is available on 92-94FM (102.7 in the Northeast) in Ireland and via satellite and the Internet. It began broadcasting on 2 April 1972, and was the second legal radio station in the Republic of Ireland.

Nós Magazine

Nós Magazine
Inspiring and engaging, entertaining and informing, nós* is an exciting and innovative online Irish Magazine.
Nós* provides a unique take on the best of Irish and international music, film, technology, travel, style and more. Crafted by a vibrant, young team, the magazine’s contemporary content and design attracts a dynamic, culturally-aware readership which continues to grow, both throughout Ireland and worldwide.
 

Cois Life

Cois Life
Cois Life was established in 1995 to publish literary and research works in the Irish language. We publish books for learners of Irish, for young people and also plays, fiction and poetry. Academic monographs are produced in the Lúb ar Phár series.

Litriocht

Litriocht
Litriocht sell books and music in Irish to customers all over the world. Their tag line is "Every Irish book in print".  / Díolann Litriocht.com leabhair agus ceol as Gaeilge do chustaiméirí timpeall an domhain, agus anseo tá leathanaigh cuardaigh, eolas faoin siopa agus a stair, naisc agus forimeacha ordaithe.

GaelShirt

Gael Shirt
Really funny Irish Language tShirts, very original. They have a range of adult and Irish shirts.
 

Boards.ie irish Forum

Boards.ie - Teach na nGealt
Boards.ie is Irelands' biggest forum and Teach na nGaelt is the forum for the Irish Speakers / Learners and enthusiasts.

Daltaí

Daltaí na Gaeilge
This site is dedicated to promoting and teaching the Irish language. The English translation of the name is "Students of the Irish Language". Although many of the members are fluent Irish speakers and teachers, most of us are students still working hard to learn the language.

Irish Gaelic Translator Forum

Irish Gaelic Translator
With its complex grammar rules, the Irish language doesn't lend itself well to a ready-made on-line English to Gaelic translator. That's where our free human-written English to Irish Gaelic translations fill in the gap. We have 50,000 members who have contributed 600,000+ posts. Irish Gaelic to English translations for free! Sister site of IrishEnglishDictionary.com.
 
Philo Celtic
The Philo-Celtic Society.
The Philo-Celtic Society.  'Philo-Celtic' means "love of the Irish language."  Mícheál Ó Lócháin started their activities with Irish language classes in Brooklyn in 1872 and the magazine "An Gaodhal" in 1881, and in that way he founded the Irish Language movement in America.
 

Udaras na Gaeltachta

Údarás na Gaeltachta / The Gaeltacht Authority
Údarás na Gaeltachta develop the Gaeltacht economy in order to preserve and enrich the Irish language as the principal language therein.  In order to achieve its goals, Údarás na Gaeltachta, established in 1980, pursues strategic aims in the areas of Industrial Development, Community/Regional Development and Training/Human Resource Development.  Údarás is also involved in community, cultural and language development activities.

Foras na Gaeilge

Foras na Gaeilge
Foras na Gaeilge are the body responsible for promotion of the Irish language throughout the whole island of Ireland, was founded on the second day of December 1999.

The Foras aims to facilitate and encourage the speaking and writing of Irish in the public and private arena in the Republic of Ireland, and in Northern Ireland where there is appropriate demand, in the context of part three of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages.

GaelPort

Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge
Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge is the central steering council for the Irish language community.  Its mission is to 'strengthen and consolidate goodwill and support for the Irish language and its usage as a living language so that it may be used freely and widely in all aspects of Irish life'.
Conradh na Gaeilge
Conradh na Gaeilge / The Gaelic League
Conradh na Gaeilge / The Gaelic League is an organisation "for the purpose of keeping the Irish language spoken in Ireland.. They are the main voluntary community organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and abroad.  Its main aim is to reinstate the Irish language as the common tongue of Ireland. Since its foundation on 31 July 1893 members of the Conradh have been actively promoting Irish in every aspect of life in Ireland.

Comhludar


Comhluadar
If you are bringing up your family through Irish, Comhluadar can help. Is Irish the spoken language of one or both parents at home ? If so, you are not alone: Comhluadar is there to support you. Comhluadar is here to advise, guide and help. When you register with Comhluadar, you are opening a new form of communication for yourself and your family. No matter where you live, how fluent you are, or what age group you belong to, you are welcome to join us in Comhluadar.
GaelChultúr
Gaelchultúr
The company Gaelchultúr Teoranta (Ltd.) was established in 2004 with the aim of promoting the Irish language and various aspects of Irish culture, including music, song and dance, in Dublin and other parts of Ireland.
 

GaelTalk

Gaeltalk
Gaeltalk teaches the Irish language via an online language course. Our online course is suitable to those who wish to learn Irish from native speakers either for personal or business use. Gaeltalk is designed to make a direct connection between the Gaeltachts (Irish-speaking areas in Ireland) as well as the Irish diaspora around the world.

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Colaiste Ghàidhlig na h-Alba
-- Massive listing of online resources. Takes a lot to read through but can be helpful.

irishcultureandcustoms.com

Irish Culture and Customs
The site itself is dedicated to Ireland/all things Irish but the link included is to a listing of lessons which may be helpful.

Blas BBC Lessons

Blás
BBC Northern Ireland provided a range of lessons and tests to help learners.

An Cainteoir Duchasach

An Cainteoir Dóchais
Liosta de riailacha gramadach na Gaeilge. Irish Grammer Rules.

Eo Feasa

Eo Feasa
You may learn the Irish language, An Ghaeilge, here with personal tuition, encouragement and support from an experienced teacher who will provide email correction of your own written work and occasional sound files to illustrate the pronunciation.

NUIM

NUI Maynooth
Lessons from NUI Maynooth based on TG4's programmes and similar.

Talk Irish

Talk Irish / Labhair Gaeilge
Want to learn, use or brush up on your Irish? Award winning website (2009) - excellent resource.
 

Foclóir comhoibritheach é FocloirGaeilge.ie. Is féidir clárú mar ball le focail a chur leis.

FocloirGaeilge.ie is a unique free Irish dictionary in that it's built and edited by its members. It is also available in English through http://www.irishionary.com

Focal.ie

Focal.ie
Bunachar náisiúnta téarmaíochta don Ghaeilge, arna fhorbairt ag Fiontar, DCU le maoiniú ó Fhoras na Gaeilge

The national terminology database for Irish, developed by Fiontar, DCU with funding from Foras na Gaeilge

IrishEnglishDictionary.com

Irish English Dictionary
A free translation website for English to Irish, or vice versa.

An Gramadóir

An Gramadóir
An Gramadóir is an open source grammar checking engine. I personally highly recommend this and find it a great learning tool also. It is intended as a platform for the development of sophisticated natural language processing tools for languages with limited computational resources. It is currently implemented for the Irish language (Gaeilge); this is, to the best of my knowledge, the first grammar checker developed for any minority language.

An Focloir Beag

An Foclóir Beag
Translates to "The Small Dictionary". Offers translations, an much more such as tenses and other useful information for full understanding of the Irish Language.

Achmainn

Freagra
Freagra (the Irish for 'answer') can be accessed via phone, text or email and promises a quick response to queries on all aspects of the Irish language. Most Irish people have some ability in Irish, but even the most confident speakers are sometimes uncertain about vocabulary, spelling or grammar. Freagra offers speedy and expert advice in your preferred format.
 
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