Dia daoibh,
I've found a version of Mac Rí na hÉireann here as well as other stories that you can read and listen to (but apparently you can't download the sound) - I'd be grateful if you could tell what dialect it's in.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-r ... -heireann/

It's hard to know.

She is fluent.
But it sounds more caighdeánach.
Sounds like Connacht sometimes, and a bit Munster at other times (but not a strong Munster accent)

Wait for dialect experts to comment.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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I think Bríd is right except I would side with this woman being a native Munster speaker.

Go raibh maith agaibh

The text is in standard Irish, and the woman is a non-native speaker (she pronounces most ch like c, gh as g, she pronounces most r's as in English... to make it short she makes most of the pronunciation mistakes learners make...) who tries to pronounce in the Munster way but some things are pronounced as in Connemara. For instance, sometimes she pronounces broad mh like v (as in Munster) and sometimes like w (as in Connemara and Ulster), I don't know why.
If I had children, I wouldn't make them listen to that, I would ask a native speaker to record it or if I can't, I would record it myself

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Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

This sort of resource is incredibly good! I am reading a couple of simple books right now by Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin and they are wonderful to add a few words, etc. to my vocab. I don't know about the accent here as it's so much better than anything I could ever do. My main reference is Ulster so I don't know yet how to distinguish Munster Irish from Connemara, etc. It may not be perfect, but I'd say....if you can do something better then do it. Learners out here are desperate for this kind of stuff. Thanks for posting it here. I wish there were an index somewhere like a library on-line where we could tap into these sort of reader books.

I can, but native speakers can do even better than me so I'd prefer if they did it Bríd?

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Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Well.........we're all out here waiting. Meanwhile, we'll just have to use what is being put out there. Just pointing out that we use this stuff because that's all that's out there. What an incredible thing it would be to have an on-line library with reading attachments! Could start off basic like me and work on up to a level where it isn't really needed.

Well, do you know the website Béaloideas.com?

There are transcriptions of interviews in Donegal Irish. Sound+ transcriptions. But they speak much more quickly than someone reading a story for children, of course -- I guess you know how quickly Donegal people speak

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Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

That, and unfortunately many of the recordings are of quite poor quality, so it can often be hard to hear what’s being said (even when they don’t speak quickly … if that ever happens).

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.