Use will be made of written sources, the spoken language and folklore in order to collect the headwords for the dictionary.
Work is in progress on the online version, in Donegal and in Dublin; this is the Corpus Of Irish 1882–2000.
The project is accommodated in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin and in Ionad Fiontraíochta Shliabh Liag, Carrick, County Donegal.
[1] This online corpus of prose and poetry drawn from both published and manuscript material, allows users to read and download texts, and also to search for words across the entire range of texts in a variety of ways.
In 2019 it was announced that the project would receive Government funding of €920,000 for the next five years.