Crá is a great TV show in Donegal dialect: f-moviesz.to/tv-show/boglands

• https://www.tearma.ie/

• focloir.ie

• teanglann.ie

• wiktionary.org

• https://focloir.info/ (searchable Dineen)

• Bishop O’Brien’s Focalóir Gaoidhilge-Sax Bhéarla (1768) – https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_focalir-gaoidhilge-sax-_obrien-john_1768

• 1732 dictionary – https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__B3aET_ihI4C

• https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-english-irish-dictio_1732/page/677/mode/1up

• corpas.focloir.ie

• gaois.ie

• gaois.ie/en/idioms

• Liosta Minicíochta Focal Gaeilge | Irish Word Frequency List. A corpus-based, cleaned-up frequency list of Irish lemmas. https://github.com/michmech/irish-word-frequency/blob/master/frequency.txt

• https://www.akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Prìomh_dhuilleag

https://wikisource.org/wiki/Mo_Sgéal_Féin/1

• Includes native audio

doegen.ie – native speakers audio

https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/oduibhin/index.htm

Discussion:

• Celtic Languages Discord channel
• irishlanguageforum.com

The Pirate Bay has packs

archive.org has some books like Cré na Cille

• https://archive.org/details/MirttnNCadhainCrNaCilleCs

• https://archive.org/details/booksbylanguage_irish?tab=collection&query=-title%3A("The+Irish+Times")&sort=week

• https://archive.org/details/internetarchivebooks?and[]=languageSorter%3A"Irish"

tg4.ie

https://toingaeilge.com/acmhainni

https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/mkftf1/learning_irish_as_an_adult/

Buntus Cainte is a classic book from the 60s that teaches conversational Irish, called the ‘most successful Irish course ever’. This memrise course is exactly the audio and sentences from the book: https://app.memrise.com/course/175401/beginner-spoken-irish-01-20-buntus-cainte/

Ulster Irish the tv show “Now You’re Talking”/Irish on Your Own can be watched here: http://www.dfwgaelicleague.com/p/irish-on-your-own.html

blog posts on alternatives to duolingo

• https://thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/beyond-duolingo/
• https://islinneamaireach.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/why-not-duolingo-and-what-to-use-instead/

Sionnach app

Dialects

• http://ainm.ie/geo for finding writers from dialect-communities
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_literature (box at bottom of desktop version)
• https://reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/7ye749/here_is_how_irish_was_spoken_in_co_dublin/
• doegen.ie
• https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/oduibhin/index.htm
• https://dublingaelic.blogspot.com/

Piatt’s book on Leinster Gaelic:

• https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/oduibhin/leabharthai/Gaelic Dialects of Leinster - Piatt.pdf
• Alt upload: https://files.catbox.moe/vlaya3.pdf

Publishers

• cic.ie
• https://www.siopaleabhar.com/en/
• https://www.anceathrupoili.com/en/

https://cula4.ie/ is handy. media made for kids/young people is great for getting used to sentence structures and common vocab. they’ve got everything from “saol faoi shráid” to the irish dub of “shrek”!

https://www.rte.ie/player/series/bluey-as-gaeilge/10019908-00-0000 “bluey” is available in irish on the rté player just beginning this week or so. the first episode says there’s only 6 days left to watch it, so they won’t be up forever, sadly.

https://snas.ie/ has a load of resources starting at level B1; i enjoyed going through the lessons based on “ros na rún”, and the explanations for the grammar/vocab in them are in english.

a blog i keep coming across when i’m looking for explanations online is https://toingaeilge.com/ too. it hasn’t been updated in a few years, but it has some great breakdowns & good lists of resources too.

https://www.foclach.com/ and https://seafoid.com/ are some daily word games (based on wordle and waffle) that might help with expanding vocabulary. i find seafóid easier & it pops up with a definition as soon as you get each word.

other than that, i recommend reading as many books in irish that you can get your hands on, starting with books for kids & working your way up. starting at too high a level is likely to just be frustrating & demotivating, so focus on what you can easily do now & keep adding to it.

for getting books, your local library’s online catalogue will let you know what it has & what it can get via inter-library loan. (free resources are my favourite 🥳)

i’d recommend these for buying books in irish, if there’s nothing of interest anywhere local: https://www.siopaleabhar.com/ https://www.siopagaeilge.ie/ https://www.litriocht.com/

ádh mór ort! 🙌

I like the Gaeilge Gan Stró series because they’re modern and include good audio to listen to. I find it easier to just listen to the audio until it sounds familiar and then read the chapter after that.

I saw an Irish teacher online recommending something for retention that works well for me: basically when I hear something on Irish radio or TV that sounds familiar but I don’t know what it actually means, I write it down and look it up later. I remember those well and they’re usually useful and current.

Fair play OP, ádh mór leis. Some great replies too.