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Every Irish word and phrase on this site, and in our printables, was copied from one of the pages below and checked against it on 30 October 2026. The site’s facts (dates, census figures and quotes) were checked the same way. Words we couldn’t find in these sources were left out.

How we handle dialects and pronunciation

• Dialects. Phrases are labelled Connacht, Munster or Ulster only where Gaelchultúr’s lessons label them. The dictionaries give standard forms.
• Pronunciation. No invented sound-alike spellings. The only two used are Gaelchultúr’s own. For real voices, use teanglann.ie, where native speakers of all three dialects say each word. teanglann.ie’s Pronunciation Database lets you hear words in the three major dialects, Connacht, Ulster and Munster, spoken by native speakers from each dialect. Foras na Gaeilge, teanglann.ie: Pronunciation Database (Connacht, Ulster and Munster recordings) ↗
• Computer voices. abair.ie (ABAIR) builds speech technology for Irish, including computer voices for Irish (synthesised speech, not recordings of people). The ABAIR team is at the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin. Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin: Screen Reader Voices for Irish by abair.ie ↗ abair.ie offers “Téacs → Caint” (text to speech). ABAIR (abair.ie): speech and language technologies for Irish ↗
• Place names. County and province names come from S.I. No. 519/2003. logainm.ie asked for a captcha when we checked, so we didn’t use it, and we don’t give place-name meanings.
• Who runs Ranganna. Ranganna.com is owned by Gaelchultúr. Ranganna.com (Gaelchultúr) ↗

All sources

1. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 1: Hello
2. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 2: How are you?
3. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 3: Returning a greeting
4. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 4: Introducing yourself
5. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 5: My name is Máirtín
6. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 6: What’s your name?
7. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 9: The cardinal numbers
8. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful information 11: Saying goodbye
9. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Key sounds
10. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): morning
11. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): thanks
12. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): please
13. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): welcome
14. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): sorry
15. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): cheers
16. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): goodbye
17. Foras na Gaeilge, teanglann.ie: English-Irish Dictionary (de Bhaldraithe), good night
18. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): eleven to twenty (one entry per number)
19. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): colour words (one entry per colour)
20. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): days of the week (one entry per day)
21. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): months (one entry per month)
22. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter, season)
23. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): weather words (sun, rain, wind, snow)
24. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): animal words (one entry per animal)
25. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): nature and everyday words (one entry per word)
26. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): day, week, month, year
27. Irish Statute Book: S.I. No. 519/2003, Placenames (Provinces and Counties) Order 2003
28. Foras na Gaeilge, teanglann.ie: Ó Dónaill’s Irish-English Dictionary (1977), place-name words (one entry per word)
29. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): Irish
30. Gaelchultúr, Ranganna.com: Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level sample unit, Useful tips for learners
31. Government of Ireland, gov.ie: Gaeltacht affairs
32. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): province
33. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): county
34. Foras na Gaeilge, New English-Irish Dictionary (focloir.ie): Manx
35. Foras na Gaeilge, teanglann.ie: Pronunciation Database (Connacht, Ulster and Munster recordings)
36. Irish Statute Book: Constitution of Ireland
37. European Commission: Irish now at the same level as the other official EU languages (3 January 2022)
38. Government of Ireland, Department of Foreign Affairs: Ending of Irish derogation
39. Central Statistics Office: Census 2022 Summary Results, Education and Irish language
40. NISRA: Census 2021 main statistics for Northern Ireland, phase 1
41. Britannica: ogham writing
42. Britannica: Irish language
43. Britannica: Goidelic languages
44. Britannica: Manx language
45. Culture Vannin, Learn Manx: Discover the story of Manx
46. Government of Ireland: List of the 26 Language Planning Areas and Maps
47. ABAIR (abair.ie): speech and language technologies for Irish
48. Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin: Screen Reader Voices for Irish by abair.ie
49. Ranganna.com (Gaelchultúr)
50. sráidainm.ie: Placenames orders

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