nascanna.com & scriobh.ie

There are two related websites here, scriobh.ie and nascanna.com. This one, scriobh.ie, contains a description of computer applications that relate to writing of the Irish language, such as disctionaries and so on. The other, nascanna.com, is a guide to general computer applications that are available in Irish, but which do not necessarily concern the language itself.

This site: scriobh.ie

There are plenty of resources out there that can assist people who are writing in Irish, such as spellcheckers, grammar checkers, dictionaries and more. Many of these are available free of charge too. In this website, we have put together a list of what we consider to be the best amongst them. We hope you can use these.

Support

Dúrud, who developed this site, would like to thank Foras na Gaeilge for their kind support in establishing and promoting this site.

Fáilte - Welcome

Welcome to scriobh.ie.

This site summarises the most useful computer and internet resources that relate to the writing of the Irish language. It is not about literature, but something that points to other sites where dictionaries, spellcheckers, and other pertinent resources can be found. It is an attempt to organise the information out there.

Many new resources have been added in this arena over the last ten years or so. Yet, they are not generally known, even amongst fluent speakers, so it is hoped that this site will help spread the message to everyone.

By its nature, much of what is contained on this site is valid for all common computer systems. Where this is not the case, it is mentioned.

There are three versions of this site: in Irish; in simple Irish; and in English (this version). The various versions are not necessarily the same, as people’s perspectives on the matter are different depending on whether they know Irish or not. The Irish version is the most comprehensive and should be used if possible.

Latest:

The Caighdeán Oifigiúil Athbhreithnithe (Revised Official Standard) has been published and is now available here.
There is a new add-on available for Firefox that can be used to replace vowels that lack fada signs with ones that do, for people writing Irish on the web. More details at the bottom of the following page.
See also: www.aistear.ie.

About this site

This site is an initiative of Dúrud Teoranta.

Dúrud wishes to thank Foras na Gaeilge for its kind assistance on this project.

LibreOffice - The Choice for Irish

We recommend it to anyone who is writing in Irish do download and use the free computer application called LibreOffice. This is an excellent wordprocessor that hosts a spellchecker and thesaurus, for example. One can make PDFs from documents easily as well.

In LibreOffice, it is possible to open MS Word documents, make changes, and save again as a MS Word document, if required.

An Foclóir Beag (Dictionary)

An Foclóir Beag, the Irish/Irish dictionay, is available on line. It offers more than the print version; for example, one can see verbs and adjectives in all their forms.

Potafocal

If you are looking for information, including translations, related to a word, you might not need to look any further than potafocal.com. This site uses many different resources to present to the user many different aspects related to the word. It even contains straight links to well-known sites such as focal.ie. It is well worth a visit.