Wonderfully fun and addictive introduction to Irish. Huge number of lessons. It’s the one that truly got me started on my Irish learning path.

Enjoyable, gentle-paced introduction to Irish from BBC Radio Ulster’s Fearghal Mag Uiginn.

Continuation of this beginner-friendly introduction to Irish.

The concluding series of this beginner-friendly introduction to Irish.

Excellent video based Beginner-to-Intermediate course using naturally-paced Ulster dialect speech. Note: this is considerably more comprehensive and challenging than the ‘Giota Series’ so it can be quite a step-up.

Truly exceptional value for money. Vast amount of interactive content in the form of quizzes and games. With excellent reference content in each section.

The charming illustrations and high production values make this a pleasure to use. The lessons are based on the popular classic Búntus Cainte series. The iOS app has unfortunately disappeared from App Store recently. Lessons available through website only now.

An interesting series of lectures (in English) explaining some of the trickier points of Irish grammar and tips for learners.

An expertly produced series of audio lessons with an interesting emphasis on practice, repetition + variation of core day-to-day Irish. Highly recommended.

Ranganna.com is a user-friendly and comprehensive e-learning website that lets you learn authentic, every-day Irish independently and at your own pace

With the option to enable subtitles in Irish, these videos are of great value for the typical learner.

Great opportunity to “hear yourself” speaking Irish using the novel, if fiddly, record + playback feature of this app. Which is useful when struggling to form unfamiliar sounds in the language. Note: The publicly available lessons in question are available under: Aoi/Guest

Audio online drama for learners of the Irish language (intermediate level) — produced in 20 chapters. Written by Pól Ó Muirí. Each chapter has a proverb as its title and its theme is woven through the chapter, in order to reinforce learning and understanding. The accompanying notes explain many idioms and verbal phrases introduced in each episode.

Writer Séamas Mac Annaidh casts a critical eye over the stories and the people in the news.

For the learner fed-up with a diet of children’s books this series offers learner-tailored novels with ‘a discernible plot; a few, well-developed characters; simple language with the occasional challenging word; and short chapters, to create the feel and structure of ‘regular’ novels’.

Roddy Doyle — Deireadh Seachtaine Craiceáilte
Marian Keyes — Is Gearr
Julie Parsons — An Seomra Tobac
John Connolly — Na Cailleacha Underbury
Maeve Binchy — Na Tógálaithe
Deirdre Purcell — Tá Jesus agus Billy ag imeacht go Barcelona
Vincent Banville — Timpiste Réidh le Tarlú

The first several chapters of each ebook are provided free (both audio and transcripts). A different narrator reads each novel, providing opportunities to expose your ear to different accents. The full ebooks are available for purchase.

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne — Hurlamaboc
Bram Stoker/Seán Ó Cuirrín — Dracula
Anna Heussaff — Buille Marfach
Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird — Rún an Bhonnáin

A truly invaluable app. A must for all learners. The New English-Irish Dictionary contains over 32,000 headwords, more than 100,000 senses, and over 100,000 example sentences and phrases. Users may also avail of pronunciation files from the three major dialects and numerous links to grammar files.

A truly invaluable app. A must for all learners. Download up to 3 Irish language dictionaries plus grammar and sound files for Irish words with Teanglann, this is the companion app to www.teanglann.ie

Hightlights include this pack containing 1700+ words from Beginners Irish book. Search for ‘Irish’ or ‘Gaeilge’ to explore the full range of content available.

Search for ‘Irish’ or ‘Gaeilge’ to explore the full range of content available. Check out some of our own decks.

A vast range of Vocabulary, Noun and Verb learning exercises.

The frequent crashing of this free app is a major spoiler. But it’s so good when it works that I had to at least list it.

The frequent crashing of this free app is a major spoiler. But it’s so good when it works that I had to at least list it.

This very well structured and comprehensive website may become an indispensible quick grammar reference throughout your Irish language journey

This series, created by the fantastic Gaelchultúr, is a well-produced, comprehensive collection of 3-4 minute long grammar lessons. The lessons are delivered through Irish which means stronger listening skills are a must to get the full benefit.

An Chraic with 16 topics, 70 themes, and 800 phrases supports the learning of Irish from early secondary school up to GCSE / Junior Cert level and above

An excellent collection of interviews, recorded by Adrian Ó Mealláin over the years, with teachers from many of the Irish language organisations in Belfast