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DanielGallagherIRE/Irish-Book-Blurbs

Irish-Language Book Metadata (Litriocht.com) This dataset contains metadata only — titles, authors, publishers, and descriptive blurbs — for 5,696 Irish-language books. It does not contain the full text of any book. The purpose is to help people discover and find Irish-language books. Each record includes a permalink pointing to the book's page on Litriocht.com where the physical book can be purchased. What This Dataset Is Book titles in Irish Short descriptive… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/DanielGallagherIRE/Irish-Book-Blurbs.

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Irish-Language Book Metadata (Litriocht.com)

This dataset contains metadata only — titles, authors, publishers, and descriptive blurbs — for 5,696 Irish-language books. It does not contain the full text of any book.

The purpose is to help people discover and find Irish-language books. Each record includes a permalink pointing to the book's page on Litriocht.com where the physical book can be purchased.

What This Dataset Is

—Book titles in Irish
—Short descriptive blurbs / abstracts in Irish (publisher marketing copy)
—Extracted metadata: author, publisher, year, ISBN
—Category and tag labels
—Links to purchase the books on Litriocht.com

What This Dataset Is Not

—Not full book texts
—Not page scans or OCR
—Not an eBook collection
—Not public domain text dumps

Use this to build search engines, recommendation systems, or catalog browsing tools that help people find Irish-language books to buy and read.

Columns

Column	Description
title	Book title in Irish
author	Author name (extracted from description)
publisher	Publisher name (extracted from description)
year	Publication year (extracted from description)
isbn	ISBN (extracted from description)
blurb	Full Irish-language book description / abstract
categories	Semicolon-joined category labels
tags	Semicolon-joined tags
price	Price in cents (EUR)
permalink	URL to the book on Litriocht.com
image_url	Cover image URL

Source

Scraped from the Litriocht.com WooCommerce Store API. All book metadata belongs to Litriocht.com.

Intended Use

Building a semantic search system for Irish-language books using encoder models. The blurbs provide the text to embed; the metadata and permalinks let users find and purchase the actual books.