About: Irish Braille

Irish Braille is the braille alphabet of the Irish language. It is augmented by specifically Irish letters for vowels with acute accents in print: ⠿ é and ⠾ ú are coincidentally the French Braille letters for é and ù: They are simply the braille letters of the third decade after z, assigned to print in alphabetical order. Irish Braille also uses some of the Grade-1+1⁄2 shortcuts of English Braille, *⠜ only has the value ar in prose. In poetry, it is used to mark a new line, like "/" in print. †Abolished in Updated Irish Braille (see below) The only word-sign is the letter ⠎ s for agus "and".