# Irish Translation Services

> Irish translation services for documents in Irish Gaelic from Ireland, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization included.

https://roxotranslations.com/irish-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Irish translation services for documents in Irish (Gaeilge), the Celtic language of Ireland, to and from English, Italian, Russian and Arabic. Irish is not the English spoken in Ireland: it is a language of its own. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Irish from Ireland and Northern Ireland, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Irish is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Irish (Gaeilge) is a Celtic language. The Constitution of Ireland, of 1937, makes it the national language and the first official language of the country, with English as the second, and it has been an official language of the European Union since 2007. In Northern Ireland it was officially recognized in 2022. It is spoken every day in the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking areas in parts of Donegal, Mayo, Galway, Kerry, Cork and Waterford, and in the 2022 census almost 1.9 million people in Ireland said they could speak it. In practice, most documents from Ireland are issued in English, or in English and Irish side by side, so tell us which language your document is in. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Irish, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Ireland, Northern Ireland and other countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Irish consulates, citizenship by descent and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Irish language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Irish that we translate today, in both directions.

- Irish to [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- Irish to [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- Irish to [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- Irish to [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/) to Irish
- [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/) to Irish
- [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/) to Irish
- [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/) to Irish

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Irish translation services for Ireland and Northern Ireland

Irish is close to Scottish Gaelic and Manx, and it has three main dialects, from Ulster, Connacht and Munster, but official documents follow the official standard spelling. A good translation follows the Irish of the original, keeps every letter of the names and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Irish or English: many documents from Ireland, such as the birth certificate, are bilingual, with the headings in Irish and English and the entries in English. In that case the translation is made from the English text, and a document written only in English needs a translation from English, not from Irish. Send the document as it is and we tell you before quoting.
- Letters: Irish uses the Latin alphabet with the long accent (síneadh fada) on á, é, í, ó and ú, and the accent changes the meaning, so Seán is a name and sean means old. American documents often drop the accent, so Seán becomes Sean and Siobhán becomes Siobhan. The translation keeps every name exactly as in the original, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Names: surnames change with gender, so a man is Ó Briain or Mac Mathúna and a woman is Ní Bhriain or Nic Mhathúna, and the same family may appear in English as O'Brien or McMahon. The translation never adapts a name: it keeps the spelling of the original, and differences between your documents are something to point out when you order. Proper names are not translated: in a document translation, Michael stays Michael and Mícheál stays Mícheál, as in the original.
- Places, dates and numbers: places have an Irish name of their own, so Dublin is Baile Átha Cliath, Cork is Corcaigh and Galway is Gaillimh, and in the Gaeltacht the official place names are in Irish only. Dates come in day, month and year order, with the months in Irish, as in 3 Deireadh Fómhair 2026, which is October 3, 2026, and decimals use a point, as in English.
- Documents from Ireland: the birth certificate (teastas breithe), the marriage certificate (teastas pósta), the Leaving Certificate (Ardteistiméireacht), which can be taken through Irish, school reports from Irish-medium schools (Gaelscoileanna) and documents from Gaeltacht bodies. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Irish language

Irish is a Celtic language of the Goidelic branch, the same as Scottish Gaelic and Manx. Its oldest records are ogham inscriptions, carved as lines along the edges of standing stones from around the 4th to the 6th centuries. In the 8th and 9th centuries Irish monks wrote notes in Old Irish in the margins of Latin manuscripts, some of them kept today in libraries in continental Europe.

One of the oldest manuscripts written entirely in Irish, the Book of the Dun Cow (Lebor na hUidre), dates from around 1100. For centuries Irish was the language of most of the island, but English rule, the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852 and emigration, much of it to the United States, reduced the number of speakers, above all in the west. In 1893 the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) was founded to revive the language, and one of its founders, Douglas Hyde, became the first President of Ireland in 1938.

The Constitution of 1937 made Irish the first official language, and the official standard (An Caighdeán Oifigiúil), published in 1958, fixed the spelling and grammar, while the old Gaelic type gave way to the Roman type used today. The Official Languages Act of 2003 gave the public the right to deal with the state in Irish, it became an official language of the European Union in 2007, and today it is a compulsory subject in most schools in Ireland and the everyday language of the Gaeltacht.

## We also translate other languages

- [Hungarian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/hungarian-translation/)
- [Estonian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/estonian-translation/)
- [Slovenian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/slovenian-translation/)
- [Maltese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/maltese-translation/)
- [Spanish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/spanish-translation/)