The Irish curriculum is for children from junior infants to sixth class. The curriculum is presented in two separate sections: one for English medium schools and the other for Irish medium schools.

The content is presented under four strands:

• Éisteacht (Listening)
• Labhairt (Speaking)
• Léitheoireacht (Reading)
• Scríbhneoireacht (Writing).

The current curriculum was introduced as part of the Primary School Curriculum (1999). A new integrated language curriculum for English and Irish is available for infants to second class and will be available for all other classes from 2018.