Basic Irish Letters
| Vowels | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Letter | IPA | Valve Phoneme | Phonetic Example | 
| a | /a/ | AA | father, spa | 
| á | /ɑ:/ | AO | call, far | 
| e | /ɛ/ | EH | tell, get | 
| é | /e:/ | EY | bait, pay | 
| i | /ɪ/ | IH | in, hit | 
| í | /i:/ | IY | tree, mean, he | 
| o | /ɔ/ | AH | tug, wonder | 
| ó | /o:/ | OW | roll, toe, road | 
| u | /ʌ/ | UH | good, pull | 
| ú | /u:/ | UW | too, rude |