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Introduction

Welcome to Mol an Óige (MAO), an application to teach Irish Phonology to young Irish children.

The following set of documentation should help you onboard to be a part of the MAO team.

Project History​

MAO started as a summer project for a group of German students in August, 2018 among them was Niklas Schemmer who stayed with the project on an ad-hoc basis for a number of years. Oisín Morrin took over from Niklas in July 2020 until leaving the project work on his company, Weave in 2022.

A rewrite was started in June 2022 started by Rían in which the entire project was written to use React’s functional components rather than the now-deprecated class components. This, among other things required a significant redesign and rethinking, rendering a significant portion of the old logic largely unuseful.

Currently, the project is being continued on a part-time basis with hopes to launch an early version of the application to a select few “beta” schools in August, 2022.

Vision​

The future for MAO is quite bright, with significant resources and ideas put behind it. It is seen as a general platform onto which various Irish-language pedagogical resources can be built upon, including tools for screening Irish-speaking children for dyslexia, teaching children to read in Irish and developing more refined language learning opportunities for second-level students.

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Documentation​

This website stores documentation for the development, support and maintenance of MAO and its surrounding projects/ecosystem. Access to this should only be granted to those who need the information contained within.

If you would like someone to be given access please contact Rían Errity [errityr@tcd.ie]. Currently, granting access to the documentation site also grants access to the backoffice. Keep this in mind when you're requesting someone has access, as the backoffice allows access to GDPR-protected personally identifiable information.

If you are looking for the onboarding introduction please look here.