I think the biggest stumbling blocks is that not many of us can read Irish (Gaelige).

While I am on mobile and (therefore) have not accessed the files, the ToC and description of the OCR process leads me to understand that the original print is in Irish, not English.

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donohoe 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, which imho makes it more remarkable. I do not doubt an English translation is coming once they can convert it into modern Irish.

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dmurray 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It looks extremely accessible. I can puzzle through the pages I looked at with school-level Irish.

The script can be mechanically translated to the modern characters, no ambiguity there. The spelling and grammar isn't the perfectly standardized Irish introduced in the 1940s and 50s - which isn't representative of how anyone ever spoke the language - but its differences are those a good to mediocre student might make anyway while trying to write the official standard.

It helps that this is clearly written for a YA audience. Literary Irish has lots of complicated constructions and idioms which are difficult to translate, but this does not.

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jonas21 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here's Claude's translation of the PDF in the repo:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0c40c3f8-16de-4947-93c1-3...

I couldn't verify it, and a human translation would be preferable -- but it's probably good enough to get an idea of the story if you want to read some right now.

	▲	dmurray 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can verify it looks fine. Not absolutely rigorous, e.g. > "You have far more knowledge of the stars and the planets than any other living man" Why "far more knowledge"? I don't see any emphasis like that in the original. I'd have a few nits but they're of similarly small magnitude.

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talideon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, it _is_ in modern Irish! It just needs to be transcribed.