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Irish-language LLM efforts (Ard-Intleacht na Gaeilge; UCCIX)

Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Irish-language LLM efforts (Ard-Intleacht na Gaeilge; UCCIX).

Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference

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Reviewed identity

Headquarters scope
headquarters unknown
Headquarters country
unknown
Headquarters city
unknown
Legal entity
state programme (Ard-Intleacht na Gaeilge) plus academic research at University College Cork
Ownership
public / academic
Founded
unknown
Confidence
medium
Last verified
2026-08-22

Links

Official website

Headquarters evidence

Open interactive profile

Headquarters evidence

No qualifying headquarters passage was promoted.

The record mixes a state programme and academic work; no qualifying HQ wording was found for a single canonical organisation.

Evidence boundaries

Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.

Model listings

  1. UCCIX (Irish-eXcellence LLM)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    13B (continued pretraining / fine-tuning of Llama 2-13B)
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    Irish Gaelic (with English)
    Licence
    unknown
    Release
    2024 (ECAI 2024)
  2. Qomhrácatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    unknown
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    Irish–English bilingual
    Licence
    unknown
    Release
    2025-10 (arXiv preprint)

Profile note

Ireland's national LLM story is a language-preservation story rather than a frontier-model story. Ard-Intleacht na Gaeilge is a state-backed flagship aiming to deploy an Irish-language AI assistant for public services by 2026, explicitly to safeguard Irish in the digital realm. UCCIX (UCC, ECAI 2024) is the first open-source Irish Gaelic LLM — Llama 2-13B adapted on a small curated corpus, reportedly beating far larger multilingual models on Irish tasks by up to 12%. Qomhrá is a follow-on bilingual Irish–English model. Extreme-low-resource language modelling is the defining constraint. Progra…

Record sources

  1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13010
  2. https://github.com/ReML-AI/UCCIX
  3. https://arxiv.org/html/2510.17652v1
  4. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03091-w
  5. https://www.ey.com/en_ie/insights/consulting/how-ai-can-open-new-frontiers-for-the-irish-language
  6. https://research.ucc.ie/en/publications/uccix-irish-excellence-large-language-model/