Irish Writing Tips Blog

UNBOXING the New English-Irish Dictionary... FÍSEÁN NUA

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

My copy of the new Concise English-Irish dictionary arrived in the post in a massive box. So I thought I'd make an unboxing video about it. Cén G...

How to Fix a Weird Bug in Microsoft Word

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

I've been getting a lot of emails recently about a weird bug in Microsoft Word that happens when people are typing Irish. This video shows how to ...

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NEW English-Irish dictionary launched... Foclóir nua Béarla-Gaeilge seolta...

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

There's a brand new printed English-Irish dictionary available... Tá foclóir nua Béarla-Gaeilge ar fáil anois... In this video I give a quick overview of it and explain why there's nothing concise about this new Concise English-Irish Dictionary from Foras na Gaeilge.

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REVEALED: The Most Controversial Irish Language Writing Tool

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

There's one controversial online tool people don't like to talk about when it comes to writing in Irish. In this video, I reveal what it is and why you should use it...

Terrified of writing in Irish? Here are tips that will help

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

Lots of people are literally scared of writing in Irish - especially if they haven't done it for a long time. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this video I share some tips that make getting back to writing in Irish much easier...

Top Irish Dictionary and Online Resources

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

There are lots of Irish dictionary and online resources available these days. Watch this video to find out about the top ones - including the amazing website I use everyday when I'm writing Irish that no one mentioned in my recent survey...

How to stop Word changing "i" to "I" in Irish

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

One of the most frustrating things about typing in Irish in Microsoft Word is that it keeps changing a lower case "i" to an uppercase "I" automatic...

Fundraising for charity cycling and other blog posts

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

Some of you will know that I do a few other things when I'm not working on projects like the Irish spelling checker GaelSpell or our Irish grammar ...

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Why we chose Shopify for our website

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

Switching our website over to the Shopify platform (from GoDaddy's old website builder) has hopefully made finding out about our Irish language software easier for our website's visitors. It certainly has made it easier for us to manage how we showcase our products and create special offers for both GaelSpell and Anois.

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Irish Names: Focus on the Top 10 Irish Boy Names

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

I've just published my latest video which is the first of our series looking at Irish names. This one gives a quick summary of the official Top 10...

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GaelSpell for Mac now available

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

We've recently launched GaelSpell for Apple Mac. It's the long awaited version of our Irish spelling checker that works with Microsoft Word on Apple Mac / OS X computers.

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[UPDATED] How do you spell Focloiropedia? Is it Foclóiropedia? Or even Foclóiripedia?

by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna

The beautifully illustrated Irish language book "Foclóiropedia" is bound to end up in lots of children's Christmas stockings this year. But I was s...

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