Does anyone know of any fairly simple or children's stories in Irish on the net? They don't have to have translations but simpler stories would make it easier for me to translate them. Thanks.

Here's something super-easy for ya (with a sound file):

http://www.cdu.mic.ul.ie/rabhlai/sampla.htm

Thanks. Every little bit helps.

Dia dhuit,
I think you'll find that Rabhlaí Rabhlaí is a book and CD of nursery rhymes rather than stories, but anyway it's one of my favourite books in Irish. It's published by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne and so it's in that dialect of Munster. They've also published Tídil Eidil Éro, Scéilín ó Bhéilín and Coiglímis an Tine by the late and great storyteller Bab Feiritéar from Dún Chaoin. You can get them from
http://www.oidhreacht.ie/fiolseachain.asp
If you want to browse through the An Gúm Catalóg - leabhair agus ábhair eile do dhaoine óga, there are plenty of nice books there if you scroll down. Some have accompanying CDs which are shown on Máire Breatnach's website again if you scroll down. Some of these I recognise - Máirín sa sorcas for example is one of a well-known series of reading books here in France (Martine au Cirque), An Fear a chuireadh crainn - L'Homme qui plantait les arbres, An Lacha sa Ghort - Le Canard Fermier/Farmer Duck though there's a new title for it on Litríocht - An Lacha Feirmeora. There's even a drama book about a Hurdaí Gurdaí (one of my close friends plays one of those) and in the Séideán Sí section there's Lá an Dreoilín i gCorca Dhuibhne.
http://www.gaeilge.ie
http://www.mairebreatnach.com/childrens.htm
If you look at http://www.obrien.ie in the Children's Category - Irish, there's the RíRá list there and some of them are also published in English. If you look at Páidí Péintéir for example, they show sample pages, if you click in the right place - Tá Páidí Péintéir ag péinteáil - http://www.obrien.ie/book439.cfm
They also sell an audio-cassette Glac Sos uimhir a hAon, of two of the stories.
On YouTube (rosgireland) there's Alan Titley telling the Scéal na Gaeilge and the feature is a clip with bilingual subtitles of Cré na Cille.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rosgireland?feature=watch
http://www.irishfolklorepublications.ie are publishing a bilingual version of Scéal Phádraig Naofa do Pháistí with a CD, written by Gabrielle Bean Uí Dhomhnaill, read in Irish by Alan Titley and in English by Maureen O'Hara ISBN 978 0 9573 9960 0. It's the first of a series of ten, which sounds very promising.
Finally as you're asking about what's on the net, I suggest that you have a look about the Ask about Ireland website, and there in the Learning Zone there are quite few things to choose from.
For example - There are traditional stories for the First and Second Class (Primary Students) such as Clann Lir
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning- ... /index.xml

Slán go fóill
Franc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhbNrB7qUY


agus tá an teacs le fáil ar Daltaí
http://www.daltai.com/forums/viewthread/506/P0/

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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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That is about the cutest little story I've ever heard about the cat at home by the fire. I LOVE this site. Thank you for sharing it. If I get grandkids someday I can see this being a huge help to teach them some Irish. It will be very helpful also for my listening comprehension. Where is the speaker from? Is that Muenster Irish? I doesn't sound like the Irish in Donegal, but it is so so clear and easily understood? Sounds a lot like my Skype partner who speaks Munster Irish.

ag dhul leis an srúth! (goin' with the flow)
Féabar

Darach Ó Tuairisg is from Conamara (Indreabhán I think)

Remember he was Liamín in Ros na Rún years ago.

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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 never saw/heard Ros na Rún. It was before FRG. Féabar RG (Roimh Gaeilge)

This again is taken from Rabhlaí Rabhlaí and beautifully read by Bab Feiritéar -

MO CHAITÍN

Tá caitín agamsa atá bán agus buí,
In aice na tine a bhíonn sé ina luí.
Ní féidir leis léamh, ní féidir leis scríobh,
Ní labhrann sé focal le muintir an tí.

Bímse ar scoil ag obair go dian,
Is mo chaitín ag baile ina chodladh faoin ngrian.

(and there's a nice picture of the cat sleeping on a rug before the fire in the hearth)

(sorry about that mistake - tá brón orm)