Free Irish learning resources
9 free resources, checked and categorised.
Every link is usable without paying. Some ask for a free account or keep extras behind a paid tier, and those are labelled.
Everything below is usable without paying; where a resource asks for a free account or keeps extras behind a paid tier, the row says so. The list covers the main ways people study Irish: structured courses to build a foundation, dictionaries to look things up, and listening and reading material to spend real time in the language. Start with one course and one dictionary, then add listening once you can follow simple sentences.
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New English-Irish Dictionary from Foras na Gaeilge. Includes digitalised versions of Foclóir Gaeilge Béarla and English Irish Dictionary.
Blog post summarizing free Irish-learning resources online, including videos and other links for reading about and listening to Gaeilge
Free Irish eBooks from Project Gutenberg, mostly literary texts and folk stories you can read online or download
Online Irish courses, grammar guides, and video-based lessons with interactive exercises, audio, forums, and graded syllabus levels for beginners through teachers.
"Teanglann.ie is simply the best online Irish-English dictionary, with multiple dictionary options and tabs for grammar look-ups and more."
National Terminology Database for Irish, developed by Fiontar and DCU in collaboration with An Coiste Téarmaíochta and Foras na Gaeilge.
Online Irish verb conjugator for entering an infinitive and viewing conjugated forms, with links to Irish nouns, adjectives, and grammar references
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This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources, a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.