Dictionary of the Irish language is the definitive dictionary of the Irish language, specifically the Old Irish and Middle Irish stages; the modern language is not included. Conceived in 1852 by the two preeminent Irish linguists of the time, the first volume was published in 1913 and the last of the 24 volumes in 1976. The full dictionary comprises about 2500 pages. A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ... Irish (), a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland, is constitutionally recognised as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland, an official language of the European Union, and has official recognition in Northern Ireland as well. ... Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language which can be, more or less, fully reconstructed from extant sources. ... Middle Irish is the name given by historical philologists to the form of the Irish language from the 10th to 16th centuries; it is therefore a contemporary of Middle English. ...
The full title of the work is Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, but it is frequently referred to as "the DIL." It was published by the Royal Irish Academy. The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is one of Irelands premier learned societies and cultural institutions. ...
A "compact edition" (photo-reduced) is available. (ISBN 0901714291.)
A project has been undertaken to digitize the DIL.[1]
Irish (Gaeilge), a Goidelic language spoken in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the USA, is constitutionally recognised as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland.
Irish is given recognition by the Constitution of Ireland as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland (with English being a second official language), despite the limited distribution of fluency among the population of that country.
Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Contae Chiarraí), Muskerry (Múscraí), Cape Clear (Oileán Cléire) in the western part of County Cork (Contae Chorcaí), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers in An Rinn near Dungarvan (Dún Garbháin) in County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge).
Irish (Gaeilge in Irish) is a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland and in small communities in Canada and Argentina.
Irish is constitutionally recognised as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland, and has recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland, under the Good Friday Agreement alongside the varieties of Lowland Scots spoken in Northern Ireland.
The independent Irish state from 1922 (The Irish Free State 1922-37; Éire from 1937, also known since 1949 as the Republic of Ireland) launched a major push to promote the Irishlanguage, with some of its leaders hoping that the state would become predominantly Irish-speaking within a generation.
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