Would anyone have a recommendation for a good Irish-English dictionary? I'm not looking for a little guide to slip in my pocket--I'm hoping to find a thick, hefty tome. Thanks.

The standard one we often mention here is - Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla compiled by Niall Ó Dónaill and published by An Gúm - ISBN 978 1 85791 037 7 - but you can also look it up on the Teanglann.ie website, where you can also click on the grammar and pronunciation that goes with the vocabulary and access more additional information about Irish usage.

Thank you, Franc 91. I greatly appreciate your help!

Seconding what franc said, plus there's a companion volume for English to Irish: "English-Irish Dictionary" by De Bhaldraithe. Both are generally available at Amazon. There's also a more condensed version of FGB called Gearrfhoclóit Gaeilge-Béarla which can be handy when traveling.

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

Thank you for the suggestion.

They are all here anyway:

- Ó Dónaill's Irish-English dictionary
- De Bhaldraithe English-Irish dictionary

and the new (with no paper version yet) Eng-Irish dictionary.

For the Irish-English side, there's also Dinneen's dictionary (old spelling and old script), paper version or online version here:
http://glg.csisdmz.ul.ie/index.php?mobile_display=false

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Thank you for the link and your help, Lughaidh.

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Here's an old post I did five years ago--my false start on learning Irish.

I was wondering if these Irish-English dictionary recommendations are still good. Has anything better come out since then? Is there a dictionary that leans toward the dialect of Cois Fhairrge?

Thank you!

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Still your best bet is the Teanglann website (with the FGB dictionary): https://teanglann.ie – and the dictionaries there. For English–Irish dictionary, with some more modern vocab and phrases, there’s https://focloir.ie (but it also has some mistakes, and examples and explanations based on non-native usage, so always check Teanglann first).

In general I don’t think the situation has changed much the last couple of years. The foclóir.ie dictionary has been published as a book, the Concise Irish-English Dictionary (which isn’t that concise at all): https://www.focloir.ie/en/page/book.html, but I don’t think anything major happened in the meantime.

Dinneen is still the best and most comprehensive old dictionary (it has some errors in historical forms of words and etymology though).

Don’t know anything dialectal for Cois Fharraige or Conamara Theas (but for Munster Irish, specifically Kerry, there’s Croidhe Cainnte C[h]iarraighe which is basically an Irish-Irish dictionary of Kerry usages). But maybe others will have better pointers for that.

I appreciate this information and your recommendations, Silmeth. Thank you!

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