Certified Irish Document Translation Services

Is every Ireland-issued document written in Irish?

No. Irish (Gaeilge) is Ireland's first official language, but records may be Irish-only, English-only, bilingual, or mixed.

Corpus inventories every page and translates the Irish content that needs English rendering. General Register Office records may include birth, death, marriage, adoption, civil-partnership, and stillbirth certificates, while other files can come from the HSE, Department of Foreign Affairs, An Garda Síochána, Courts Service, QQI, Revenue, or Companies Registration Office. Issuer and record type stay distinct.

A litir gan aimsiú, or No Trace letter, is not an event certificate. A Multilingual Standard Form may accompany some civil certificates, but Corpus does not obtain certificates or forms, decide whether one removes a recipient's translation requirement, or advise on apostilles. We translate visible supplied content only.

How are fadas, mutations, and Irish names preserved?

Modern Irish uses Latin script with the síneadh fada; every printed accent, mutation, prefix, apostrophe, hyphen, capital, and space is preserved.

The letters á, é, í, ó, and ú are not optional marks. Corpus also preserves lenition with h, eclipsis, and forms such as Ó, Ní, Uí, Mac, Nic, and Mhic. We do not infer kinship or marital status from a prefix, invent an English equivalent, anglicize a surname, or restore a fada that is absent from the source.

A passport or recipient spelling can guide consistency only when it clearly identifies the same person and the source supports that connection. Name variants are documented rather than silently merged.

The source image controls each mark; uncertain characters go to review.

How are Irish placenames, dates, and bilingual fields handled?

Irish and English placenames may appear together, especially in Gaeltacht material, and both forms keep their printed field relationship.

Corpus does not replace an Irish placename with an English one, merge two printed variants, or infer a county or address from context. Bilingual columns stay aligned so an Irish label is not attached to the wrong English field. A parallel English passage is preserved as part of the document layout but is not presented as newly translated Irish text.

Printed dates and numeric order are copied exactly. We do not convert an ambiguous numeric date, calculate an age, infer a missing digit, or change an Irish place form for convenience. A supported explanatory date format is added only when the recipient needs it and the source makes the date unambiguous.

What requires review in Gaelic type or historical records?

Gaelic type, dotted letters, old spelling, abbreviations, Latin, and mixed Irish and English files need review before scope or timing is fixed.

Historical Irish may use cló Gaelach, with a dot over a consonant where later spelling uses lenition with h. Corpus preserves the printed orthography instead of modernizing it. Church, parish, genealogical, probate, and personal records may also combine Irish with Latin, English, handwriting, marginal notes, or damaged paper.

The bare label Gaelic is ambiguous because Irish and Scottish Gaelic are distinct languages. A file described only as Gaelic is reviewed before work begins, and Scottish Gaelic is not folded into this owner. Corpus does not offer genealogy research, record retrieval, transcription of illegible text, sacramental verification, or authentication.

How are Irish civil, Garda, court, and citizenship records translated?

Each Irish record retains its issuer, label, names, dates, numbers, seals, signatures, annotations, pages, and legal wording.

A research copy is not renamed a certificate, and No Trace correspondence is not equated with a birth or marriage record. Prepare complete pages using the birth, marriage, or death-certificate guide.

Garda material retains its station or authority, applicant, address, purpose, coverage period, findings, dates, stamp, signature, and reference. Court, probate, land, passport, Foreign Births Register, naturalisation, and citizenship packets retain their exact office, case or registry number, parties, orders, endorsements, and finality wording. Translation does not create Garda vetting, a police clearance, citizenship proof, or legal advice; see the criminal-record, court-document, and passport guides.

Unclear office labels or finality wording need review.

How are Leaving Certificate, QQI, and university records handled?

Academic translations retain the institution, award title, NFQ level or class, modules, ECTS or credits, grades, legends, dates, and seals.

Leaving Certificate material, QQI awards, university and technological-university degrees, diplomas, and transcripts keep the issuing body's exact wording. Corpus does not convert grades, calculate an equivalency, perform credential evaluation, verify a qualification, or advise whether a recipient will recognize it. Reverse sides and separate grading legends should be included when they form part of the record.

The diploma guide and academic-transcript guide explain complete-file intake. Schools, evaluators, licensing bodies, and employers control whether they need originals, sealed copies, recent records, or a separate evaluation. Mixed Irish, English, Latin, handwriting, or dense tables go to quote review.

Unclear legends need review.

How are employment, business, property, and financial files handled?

Structured records keep entity names, roles, identifiers, dates, amounts, redactions, tables, seals, schedules, and page relationships.

Employment packets may include contracts, references, payslips, PAYE, PPS, tax material, licenses, training records, and union correspondence. Business and property packets may include CRO printouts, constitutions, resolutions, Revenue documents, contracts, leases, deeds, folios, wills, probate papers, insurance records, and bank statements. Corpus preserves the wording without interpreting tax, employment, ownership, or legal consequences.

We do not verify a registry, owner, officer authority, tax status, signature, or security feature, and we never reconstruct redacted text. The business-record guide covers linked pages and annexes; dense or multi-entity packets are quoted first.

All entity ties, handwritten schedules, faint seals, or mixed-language annexes need review before scope confirmation.

What scan and OCR problems require quote review?

Lost fadas, dotted letters, bilingual column drift, clipped marks, handwriting, damage, and uncertain page links require quote review.

OCR can confuse í/i/l/1, ó/o/0, and rn/m, while apostrophes can become stray marks. Corpus checks names, dates, register, case and reference numbers, amounts, grades, seals, marginal notes, and identifiers against the image. Missing text is marked unreadable rather than filled from context.

Send straight, uncropped, well-lit color images of every page and side, including margins, reverse text, stamps, seals, signatures, embossed or security areas, tables, annexes, and page numbers. Prefer the original digital PDF when available so Irish characters and bilingual columns remain sharp. Corpus does not inspect hidden metadata, authenticate a record, validate a signature or security feature, or log into a government or institution portal.

What should I confirm with USCIS or another recipient?

The recipient controls the required record type, original or copy format, recency, completeness, certification, and filing instructions.

For USCIS, 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires a full English translation with certification of completeness and accuracy and translator competence. Follow the form, notice, or RFE and review USCIS translation services. Corpus provides the translation and signed certificate but does not promise acceptance, approval, or an immigration outcome.

NVC or a consular post may apply country-specific reciprocity guidance to civil, police, and court records. Courts, DMV or licensing bodies, schools, evaluators, employers, banks, and insurers may set different rules. Confirm unclear requirements before ordering because translation cannot cure the wrong record, a missing reverse, an unreadable identifier, or an incomplete packet.

Should I start an order or request a quote?

Order a clear, complete, modern typed Irish file with known pages; request a quote for historical text, uncertainty, or added complexity.

Use Start Your Order for an eligible standard file with known pages. Choose Other and specify Irish (Gaeilge) because checkout has no named Irish option. Eligible pages start at $19.99/page, and standard 24-hour delivery applies only after scope confirmation.

Use Get a Quote and select named Irish for handwriting, older orthography, Gaelic type, mixed Irish and English, ambiguous Gaelic, faint fadas or dotted consonants, damaged scans, dense tables, multiple documents, unclear page counts, or recipient requirements. Corpus provides certified written-document translation only, not interpretation, notarization, apostille service, hard-copy delivery, record procurement, authentication, portal access, credential evaluation, or legal advice.