You learned Irish for 14 years. And you still freeze when your child asks you a simple question.
If any of this sounds like you, you are in exactly the right place:
-  You want your children to grow up with Irish in their lives — but the cúpla focal you have feels rusty, awkward, or just… not enough.
- You feel passionately about Irish as a language and want to raise your children hearing it at home.
- You'd love to support what they're learning in the Gaelscoil or naĂonra — but you lack the confidence.Â
- You've tried Duolingo, the odd evening class, that book on the shelf. None of it stuck, because none of it was built for the reality of everyday life at home.
- You're not looking to become fluent. You just want to know what to say — when they're getting dressed, when they won't eat their dinner, when you're tucking them in.
You don't have a motivation problem. You were never given the right tool!
 Every "I'll start next week" is a phrase your child didn't get to hear.
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Here's the part nobody likes to say out loud.
The window when your child copies everything you say — every sound, every rhythm, every small "maith thú" — is short. Brutally short. They are little sponges now. In a few years, they'll be teenagers who roll their eyes when you try.
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If Irish stays as "the school subject" in your house, here's what tends to happen:
EFFECT #1
They learn to associate Gaeilge with stress, tests, and report cards — not with you.
EFFECT #2
The gap between school and Irish home life gets wider and harder to close.
EFFECT #3
You stay stuck in the same loop: wanting to, meaning to, never quite starting.
And one day,
They finish school, and the language quietly slips out of the family for another generation.
An dea-scéal (The good news)?
Your child doesn't need a fluent parent. They need someone who knows all the phrases to use to make Irish a real language at home.Â
Children don't learn languages from textbooks. They learn from the people they love, hearing the same things in the same moments every single day.
- "DĂşisigh, a stĂłr."Â Wake up, darling
- "An bhfuil ocras ort?" Are you hungry?
- "Brostaigh ort, táimid déanach!" Hurry up, we're late
- "Maith thĂş." Well done
- "OĂche mhaith, codladh sámh." Goodnight, sleep wellÂ
Repeat those across a week, and your child will start answering you back in Irish. Repeat them across a year, and Irish becomes part of who they are. That's not a theory — that's exactly how my own daughter learned, and how 186 other Irish families are doing it right now.
- You don't need perfect grammar.
- You don't need a Gaeltacht summer.
- You don't need to "get good first."
- You just need to know what to say, how to say it, and a gentle nudge to start.
That's what Gaeilge sa Bhaile gives you.
I N T R O D U C I N GÂ
Gaeilge sa Bhaile: Bring Irish Home
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The complete, parent-built Irish course that turns ordinary days into Irish-speaking ones — without textbooks, classes, or perfectionism.
Gaeilge sa Bhaile is 37 short, beautifully clear video lessons that walk you through every part of a normal family day in Irish. Morning routines. Getting dressed. The school run. Mealtimes. Playtime. Bedtime. The exact phrases I use with my own daughter every single day — the ones that actually work, in the actual moments parents need them.
Every lesson is around 3 minutes. You can watch one while the kettle boils. You'll come away with a real phrase you can use that very day, said the way real Irish speakers say it, with all three dialects respected.
It's not a language course. It's a parenting tool that happens to be in Irish.
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Literally the best money I have ever spent. My son speaks Irish at home".Â
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Is this what you expected?
This course is so much more than I expected. It has been created just right for teaching kids in a fun, non-teaching way, if that makes sense! It is obviously created by a mother as it covers all I need to say to my children so far, so the lack of questions and feedback is because it is just right for me.Â
Payment Option
Full refund within 14 days if it doesn't suit
Plus, with every module
- Printable workbook to lock in what you've learned
- Phrase cards you can stick on the fridge, the bathroom mirror, the car dashboard
- Pronunciation guide for all three dialects (Munster, Connacht, Ulster*)Â . See FAQs for more
- Lifetime access — come back to it whenever life slows down
Frequently Asked Questions
My Irish is really, really rusty. Like… school-Irish-twenty-years-ago rusty. Will this still work for me?
I have absolutely no time. Can I really fit this in?
What if my child isn't in a Gaelscoil?
How old does my child need to be?
Which dialect is the course in?
Is this a subscription? Will I get charged again?
How long do I have access for?
What if I buy it and it's not for me?
FÚM FÉIN (ABOUT ME)
Hi, I'm Jenny. I built this course for passionate parents that love Irish
When my daughter was born, I wanted her to grow up with Irish — really grow up with it, not just see it on a school worksheet. But like a lot of Irish parents, I was carrying 14 years of school Irish that left me able to write a Leaving Cert essay and completely unable to tell a toddler to put on her shoes.
So I started writing down the phrases I actually needed. Morning ones. Mealtime ones. Hurry-up-we're-late ones. I checked them with native speakers, I drilled the pronunciation, I stuck them on the fridge, and I started using them — clumsily at first, then naturally. Within months, my daughter was answering me back in Irish.
She's now starting in a Gaelscoil with the language already in her mouth. Not because we're a fluent household, but because we made Irish part of ordinary life.
Gaeilge sa Bhaile is everything I learned, packaged into the resource I wish someone had handed me on day one. It's the course I needed. It might be the course you need too.
Tá an Ghaeilge agat. Tá sà ag fanacht ort. (You have the Irish in you. It's waiting for you.)
— Jenny
I'd love to learn all the Irish you use at home
In a year from now, you could be the parent whose child speaks Irish back to them.
That's not a small thing. That is the thing.
Imagine your child looks up from their dinner and says something to you in Irish, easy as anything, like it's the most normal thing in the world. Like it always was. Like it always will be.
That moment is closer than you think. It doesn't take fluency. It doesn't take a summer in the Gaeltacht, or years on Duolingo/ Irish class. It just takes the right phrases, used in the right moments, starting today.
186 Irish families have already done this. There's room at the table for yours.
Full refund within 14 days if it doesn't suit in any way
