French in Dublin is spoken by Irish-French families, staff at Docklands firms, teachers in Dublin schools and a growing francophone African community. We translate copies intégrales d'actes, livrets de famille, baccalauréat results, CAPES certificates and jugements supplétifs into certified English, for €29.95 per page. Most one- to three-page orders reach you within 24 hours as a signed PDF, and names keep every accent.
Across Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin, 19,243 people speak French at home (Census 2022).
Nationally, more French speakers were born in Ireland than for any other foreign language, and Dublin has plenty of bilingual households where one parent grew up in France, Belgium or Switzerland. Alongside them are Congolese, Cameroonian and Ivorian families whose civil records are often handwritten or registered late. Dublin requests range from Teaching Council files and CAO applications to marriage notification, citizenship and francophone African papers needing legalisation.
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Teachers trained in France who want to teach French in Dublin post-primary schools send the Teaching Council their CAPES, licence and relevé de notes. We translate each document with course titles and ECTS credits as printed.
A French partner marrying in Dublin brings a recent copie intégrale d'acte de naissance with its mentions marginales. A multilingual form may cover it for the Civil Registration Service, but a translation shows every annotation in full.
Citizenship applicants from DR Congo or Cameroon living in Dublin may need a jugement supplétif alongside a late-registered birth record. We translate both, with every court stamp and legalisation, so ISD can see how the birth was established.
French graduates applying for a master's at DCU or TU Dublin send their Diplôme de Licence with its supplément au diplôme. We translate the credits and the mark out of 20, never converting it to an Irish percentage.
Diplôme du baccalauréat
French lycée leavers applying to Trinity, UCD or DCU through the CAO send the diploma with the relevé de notes. The CAO wants an official translation from a professional provider, so every épreuve appears with its coefficient and its note sur 20.
Certificat de travail
French employers must hand every departing employee a certificat de travail stating the job held and the dates. Dublin recruiters and professional bodies use it to verify experience, and we translate it together with contracts or payslips if they are needed too.
Relevé de carrière
French residents of Dublin nearing retirement often need their relevé de carrière from the Assurance retraite to show insured quarters. We translate the trimestres, employers and income lines so the Department of Social Protection or a Dublin financial adviser can follow them.
Belgian, Swiss and francophone African records follow different rules from French ones, so name the issuing country on your order. A French copie intégrale is best ordered online from the mairie or, for births abroad, from the Service central d'état civil in Nantes, and Dublin offices often prefer one issued within the last few months.
€29.95 per page (300 source words) for certified French translation, with free delivery by email. Add a hard copy by tracked post (€14.95) or an apostille for use abroad (from €149.95) at checkout. See all services.
