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The Oxford Irish Minidictionary

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As a learner of Irish I have purchased several Irish-English dictionaries. I was very pleased with my purchase of the Oxford Irish Minidictionary. This dictionary includes much more help for beginning learners of Irish going into much more detail about common multipurpose Irish words. It also includes entries for many irregular verbs in several tenses. These entries merely point you back to the main entry for the verb, but this is of great help when you don't recognize the main verb from the tense you are looking up. The only thing lacking for beginners is pronunciation (which can be found in An Foclóir Póca Gaeilge/Béarla by An Gúm). I would highly recommend this book to anyone serious about learning the Irish language.

Good dictionary, well done, but... if I have counted them correctly, I found only scarcely ten thousand words, and not the said 100.000 words ( an average of 40 entries per 346 pages-English section and per 328 pages- Irish section ). However, it can be read like a romance, and sentences in it seem to be very useful, to train memory.

If you really want to learn Irish, spend the money and get a phonetic dictionary, first. Every word is a trial to new speakers. This dictionary is handy to carry to class but until you are really, really good with pronouncing the words...it's not what you want. Make it easy on yourself... Slan.