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Logainm.ie

Fiontar and The Placenames Branch (Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs) have developed the Placenames Database of Ireland at www.logainm.ie.

This is a valuable resource for journalists and translators, students and teachers, historians and researchers in genealogy. It is a public resource for Irish people at home and abroad, and for all those who appreciate the rich heritage of Irish placenames. As well as all the placenames approved by the Placenames Branch, the following resources are available:

• A system to enable simultaneous Irish-English and English-Irish translation of lists of placenames;
• Sound recordings of some placenames.
• Background information notes pertaining to certain placenames;
• Scanned images of some of the historical source material.

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LEX Project

Since early 2008, Fiontar has been creating and supplying terminology for the EU term bank iate.europa.eu. These terms are periodically added to the auxiliary glossary. IATE contains approximately 9 million terms in the 23 official languages of the EU. Fiontar is responsible for developing and increasing the number of Irish-language terms.

Fiontar staff, representatives from the EU institutions and the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht affairs at a meeting in Brussels (17 November 2009).

The aim of the second strand of the LEX project is to compile and make available Irish-language legal and statutory terminology. During 2009-10 work is being carried out to

• make Statutory Instruments from the years 1976-81 available electronically (in Irish; the English version is already available at irishstatutebook.ie);
• to align them to create a translation memory; and
• to extract terms from them, and make these available on focal.ie.

Ainm.ie

An Irish-language biography project is being developed by Fiontar, in collaboration with Cló Iar-Chonnachta, and Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú, original authors of the biographies. The Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs is funding the initial strand of the project.

The objective of this strand is to digitize the nine volumes of Irish biographies (1986-2007), by Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú, in which there are 2,052 pages and 1,272 biographies, and to publish them online. Subject to availability of funding, Strands 2 and 3 proposed later, provide for print publication in a single volume (plus CD-ROM if appropriate), and development of a work plan for the ongoing research and updating of Irish-language biographies.

The original published works are:

• 1882–1982 Beathaisnéis a hAon. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 1986.
• 1882–1982 Beathaisnéis a Dó. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 1990.
• 1882–1982 Beathaisnéis a Trí. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 1992.
• 1882–1982 Beathaisnéis a Ceathair. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 1994.
• 1882–1982 Beathaisnéis a Cúig. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 1997.
• 1782–1881 Beathaisnéis. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 1999.
• 1560–1781 Beathaisnéis. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 2001.
• 1983–2002 Beathaisnéis. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 2003.
• Beathaisnéis a Naoi: Forlíonadh agus Innéacsanna. Dublin: An Clóchomhar. 2007.

This work is a valuable original study comprising the biographies of Irish men and women from 1560 up to 2006. The objective of the current project is to provide easy access to this knowledge and to ensure the continuity of this work.

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