Pavane - you are right to seek the help of the talented and helpful folk here, but there is a readily available tool that would likely help as well. There is a music book called "The Celtic Fake Book" with some 450 or so songs and tunes from a variety of Celtic cultures. More to the point here, is that the book includes a very helpful pronunciation guide to Irish Gaelic, designed to facilitate pronunciation of the titles. It's available here (FL)for about US$20. I wouldn't take as an authoritative manual, but it may serve your needs (which many of us share). Thanks for starting this most inetresting thread.