Pronouncing Diarmaid / Diarmuid and other blog posts

It's always been a bit of a challenge explaining to people how to pronounce Diarmaid (or pronounce Diarmuid depending on how you want to spell it).

So I've now created a blog that covers off that topic and a few other things I'm interested in when I'm not working on the GaelSpell or Anois software.

This new blog is over at the this link Diarmaid Mac Mathúna Blog (but people sometimes do spell my name as Diarmaid Mac Mathuna or even Diarmuid Mac Mathuna).

I'll be covering off data-driven marketing from an Irish marketing perspective from time to time, and some of my recent blog posts include:

1. How to pronounce Diarmaid
2. Fundraising for Charity Cycling: 3 Ideas
3. Spend less time on Facebook in 5 steps:
4. Best charities to donate to 2018: How to pick the best Irish charity for you
5. Cycling clothing Ireland

It's quite a mix of topics but hopefully there's something there that will interest you.

GaelSpell for Apple Mac launched

We've recently launched GaelSpell for Apple Mac. It's the long awaited version of our Irish spelling checker that works with Microsoft Word on Apple Mac / OS X computers.


GaelSpell is our popular and powerful Irish spell check that helps find and correct Irish language spelling mistakes as you type in Microsoft Word. Now available for Apple computers due to popular demand, it contains over 300,000 entries in its comprehensive word list. Using GaelSpell is much quicker than heading off looking up the Irish spelling of words in an Irish dictionary or foclóir (or even a "focloir" without the fada - never mind Foclóiropedia!).


This is the link to find out more about this new Apple Mac version of GaelSpell on our full Cruinneog website. It works with the full version of Microsoft Word on most Apple Mac computers (but please note that it doesn't yet work on iPads or iPhones).

Like our original GaelSpell for Windows and our Anois Irish grammar checker for Windows, hopefully this helps make it easier for even more people to write as Gaeilge...

GaelSpell free Windows download?

I'm often asked whatever happened to the GaelSpell free Windows download... To cut a long story short it's no longer available because we had to start charging for it to cover our costs which shot up when it became the most popular Irish spellcheck. Instead, you can order the latest version of GaelSpell from our website www.cruinneog.com and the price includes access to comprehensive technical support.

GaelSpell for Microsoft Word was a runaway success when we first launched it and we're delighted it's still popular even though we eventually had to start charging for it.  There are also other versions of GaelSpell available for other platforms (all maintained by Kevin Scannell) that are still free. We're also delighted that hundreds of people have also downloaded our latest software package Anois for Windows and we've done our best to keep the prices as low as possible so that more people can use our software when they're writing in Irish.

Looking for GaelSpell?

If you're looking for GaelSpell, the award-winning Irish language (Gaelic) spelling checker that works with Microsoft Word, simply head on over to our full www.cruinneog.com website.

You'll also find our latest software package called Anois there which includes the GaelSpell spelling checker as well as an Irish grammar checker and thesaurus (based on the powerful An Gramadóir grammar engine). These features are all packaged up in Anois in one easy to install suite that works seamlessly inside Microsoft Word.

We've had great feedback from people using GaelSpell and Anois to prepare Irish language lesson plans for schools as well as from people writing Irish essays and assignments. We've even heard rumours that some colleges take marks off students if they don't use this software to the check their Irish spelling!

GaelSpell and Anois are fast and easy to use - and a big improvement on running back and forth to an Irish dictionary to check spelling. Have a look at the software features listed on the full www.cruinneog.com website to find out more...