22. Irish Language and Gaeltacht

Updated to 17 June 2025 (Act No. 4 of 2025 and S.I. No. 253 of 2025)

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22.1. Irish Language: General

Community 1 32/2003
Gaeltacht 49/2021
1

See S.I. No. 175 of 2025, Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011. 

22.2. Irish Legal Terms

Justice 2 18/1945
2

Public Exp (in part): see S.I. No. 418 of 2011. 

22.3. Gaeltacht Areas

Community 3
  • none
21/1956
3

Gaeltacht (in part): See S.I. No. 175 of 2025, See S.I. No. 164 of 2011 and S.I. No. 220 of 2011; and Gaeltacht Act 2012 (34/2012).

22.4. Gaeltacht Housing

Gaeltacht
  • none
4/1949
Gaeltacht
  • none
6/1953
Gaeltacht
  • none
16/1959
Community 4
  • none
34/1964
Gaeltacht
  • none
16/1967
Community 5
  • none
29/1979
Community 6
  • none
10/2001
4

See S.I. No. 175 of 2025

5

See S.I. No. 175 of 2025

6

See S.I. No. 175 of 2025

22.5. Údarás Na Gaeltachta (Gaeltacht Development Authority)

Gaeltacht 7 5/1979
Gaeltacht
  • none
5/1987
Gaeltacht
  • none
20/1989
Gaeltacht
  • none
2/1993
Gaeltacht
  • none
11/1999
Gaeltacht 27/1999
Gaeltacht
  • none
26/2010
Gaeltacht 10 34/2012
7

Gaeltacht (in part): See S.I. No. 175 of 2025, Sections 8(6A), 10(2) and (2A), 10C(4)(b), 13, 17, 18, 20A(5) and 22  Public Exp: see S.I. No. 418 of 2011. 

8 Spent on expiry, this SI should be revoked.
9 Ibid.
10

Community (in part): See S.I. No. 175 of 2025

22.6. ECA Section 3 Statutory Instruments

Foreign
  • none
27/1972