Could anyone please help me find a website for pronouncing Irish names and places. I found this one, but it seems kind of hard to me:

http://www.standingstones.com/gaelpron.html

Any help would be appreciated.

Try www.travlang.com

What do you want to know how to pronounce?

It is as challenging as standingstones suggests if you want to know the full set of rules.

The set of phonemes (basic sound components) in Gaelic is not the same as in English. There are some sounds in English that are difficult for a Gaelic speaker to produce well, and there are Gaelic sounds that are difficult for English speakers.

The orthography is different, too. And as for the grammar ... let's say that that it is a serious challenge. And if that is not trouble enough, we have three major dialects.

Unless you are prepared to do a lot of work, your best strategy might be to learn about individual words.

Thanks for the replies. Sounds like a wonderful and rich language! I'm sorry I don't have the time to learn more. I guess I'll just have to ask how to pronounce certain words. Here are some that I can think of right off the top of my head:
Columcille
Clonmacnoise
That isn't really worth the posting, but I wanted to respond. I'll think of more and get back to you. Thanks!! I'm on my way to my daughter's 19th birthday picnic....

Columcille and Clonmacnoise are anglicised words -- that is, words from Gaelic adopted into English and given English spellings. That means that the sounds are not too far from what you might guess if you follow English spelling conventions. Roughly: CULL-um-kill-eh; KLON-mack-noyce.

I hope the picnic goes well.

Well, Padraig-"garda" (police) is easy-but maybe the toast "slainte" (schlancha&quot is not.

Its too hard for one trip. There are letters also that are placed to gether to create a sound like a V. Siobhan is pronounced shiv vaughn. I cant pronounce most places still after 10 years. You don't need to.

Thanks to everyone's help! I'm going to write down words as I see them, and post a whole bunch of them at one time.
Thanks again.
Kathi

Have you done an in depth search for sites that may help you? http://tinyurl.com/2f3sg2 If you are just planning a trip to Ireland I would not worry about it too much. The Irish will pretty much know what words you are mispronouncing and overlook it. If they really do not know what you are talking about just write it down. Many times you will get a good laugh about it.