Living in Ireland - Multilingual Resources
Living in Ireland Publication
Crosscare, the Social Care Agency of The Dublin Diocese have established the Crosscare Migrant Project which is an information, advocacy and referral organisation for migrants in vulnerable situations. They have produced an information resource called ‘Living in Ireland’ which is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, and Russian.Local Guides for NewcomersFind Your Way: A Guide to Key Services in Dublin City Centre is a useful guide published by Dublin City Centre Citizens Information Service in association with Dublin City Public Libraries and North West Inner City Network, and funded by the former Office of the Minister for Integration (now the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration). This directory of local services in the Dublin City area is available in English, Russian, Polish, French and Chinese.
You can get a copy of the guide, free of charge, by dropping into the Dublin City Centre Citizen Information office at, 13A Upper O'Connell St, Dublin 1. Telephone: 01 8090633. Inside the back cover of the guide is a map with details of key services in the appropriate language.
The Newcomer’s Guide to Cork City aims to introduce newcomers to all aspects of living in Cork - from finding somewhere to live and a job, to understanding the school system and the transport system.
Printed in English, French, Russian, Romanian and Polish, it also signposts readers to where they can find more detailed information and support.
The Newcomer’s Guide to the South East aims to introduce newcomers to the South East of Ireland (Counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford and Wexford).
Printed in English, Polish, Russian, and Czech, it also refers the reader to other, more detailed sources of information and support.
Rules of the Road
“Rules of Road” is published by the Road Safety Authority and provides an interpretation of road traffic law in Ireland. It is available in English, Irish, Polish, Russian and Chinese Mandarin on the Road Safety Authority website.The Electoral Register
A person's name must be entered on the register of electors for the locality in which the elector ordinarily resides. Registration authorities (county and city councils) are required by law to prepare and publish a register of electors every year. The register comes into force on 15th February and is used at each election and referendum held in the succeeding 12 months.The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government is responsible for the various legislative codes dealing with the registration of electors and the conduct of elections and referendums. The Department offers helpful information on voting in Ireland. Here you can download a useful document called, Register of Electors, which explains the conditions for registering. The Register of Electors document is available in the following languages; English, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Slovak.
Doras Luimni have produced a leaflet in several languages, which explains who has the right to vote in Presidential elections.
Employee Tax
The website of the Revenue Commissioners provides information in the following languages; English, Irish, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Russian, Chinese, Romanian and Bulgarian. You can access material in these languages at this page.
