Site map for Discover Irish

Introduction	Overviews	Divisions	Dialects of Irish
Levels of language	Glossary	Gallery	Maps
References	Review	Search	Links

Information on the project Samples of Spoken Irish

Clickable map of Ireland with links to sound files

You can access the various sections of this website in any of four ways. Firstly, by moving the mouse cursor to a menu on the desktop and then choosing a sub-menu from the list which appears. Secondly, by clicking on any of the links in the theme list (you can access this list from the desktop). Thirdly, by using the tree structure of the menus. Fourthly, by clicking on any of the links in the following structure. This will lead to the particular section being loaded. You can then return to the desktop by just clicking on the button Desktop. To return to this sitemap, just click on the button Sitemap on the right of the image on the desktop (as you already did to get to this point in the site).

Introduction — general information on Irish today

1. Preface
2. Why study Irish
3. Irish today
   1. Official status of Irish
   2. Irish in education
   3. Irish and the media
   4. Publishing in Irish
   5. Who speaks Irish?
4. Learning Irish
   1. Online resources
5. Technical help

Overviews — history of Ireland, Irish and Celtic languages

1. History of Irish
2. History of Ireland
3. Studies of Irish
4. English influence on Irish
5. Language in the British Isles

Divisions — periods in the history of Irish

1. The Celtic background
2. Ogam
3. Old Irish
4. Middle Irish
5. Early Modern Irish
6. Modern Irish
7. Sources for Irish

Dialects — Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx

1. Dialects  –  introduction
2. Dialects  –  variation
3. Dialects  –  literature
4. Locations in the Gaeltacht
5. Scottish Gaelic
6. Manx

Levels of language — pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary

1. Grammars of Irish
2. Spelling
3. Sound system
   1. Phonetic framework
   2. Lexical sets for Irish
   3. Studies in Irish phonology
4. Morphology
   1. Palatalisation and initial mutations
   2. Mutations in present-day Irish
   3. Nouns
   4. Pronouns
   5. Prepositions
   6. Verbs
   7. Adverbs
   8. Adjectives
5. Syntax
6. Vocabulary
7. Dictionaries
8. Pragmatics

Glossary — a comprehensive list of linguistic terms

1. Terms for the study of Irish

Gallery — some important figures in Irish language and literature

1. Researchers and writers
2. Portraits of figures
3. Manuscripts
4. Church and saints
5. Architecture and art

maps — maps of the English-speaking world

1. Provinces and counties
2. Historical maps
3. Placenames

References — Literature on Irish and other Celtic languages

1. Bibliography
2. Journals
3. Trees of books
   1. General literature
   2. Welsh, Breton, Cornish
   3. Irish, Sc. Gaelic, Manx

Reviews — Summary information on linguistics

1. Language and linguistics
2. Levels of language
3. Phonetics and phonology
4. Morphology and syntax
5. Semantics and pragmatics

Search — Search the website for contents

1. Goto list of themes
2. Search this website for text

Links / Sources — Websites and sources for varieties of English

1. Sites for the Irish language
2. Sites for other Celtic languages
3. Irish English Resource Centre
4. Studying the History of English
5. Studying Varieties of English