As we approach spooky season I am begging and pleading with people to look up Actual Irish Pronunciation for Irish words.
We have some brilliant (free!) (online!) resources out there. Please.
There's the online version of one of the biggest English to Irish dictionaries (with pronunciations): focloir.ie
There's the online version of one of the biggest Irish to English dictionaries (and English to Irish, and Irish to Irish, and a grammar tool that conjugates verbs for you, and a grammar tool that'll combine nouns and adjectives for you, and pronunciations): teanglann.ie
What was one of my favourite sites to recommend for learners is abair.ie as you can put in a word or phrase or sentence and have the site say it back to you using a library of phonemes from native speakers. But they've since started using AI to smooth it out and while it's clearer to listen to based on my two checks, and you can switch back to basic synthesis, AI is the default unless you go into advanced.
And I am sure that there are more! Those are just the 3 that are the most accessible and that I used the most in uni (and in the case of the dictionaries, still continue to use along with tearma.ie and the GAY DICTIONARY An FoclĂłir Aiteach (at the time of writing the November 2022 edition is the newest)
But Irish is not English. Please please please stop applying English phonetics to Irish.
Sincerely, someone who just got side swiped by hearing "toodtewah-ha dedannan" for Tuatha DĂ© Danann. Which admittedly is new from the usual sam-haine but please.
