Grave and acute accents can be keyed in using the Alt key on the Mac (labelled Option on older Macs) in combination with the grave key or ‘e’ key respectively:
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If anyone can improve on this page I would be very glad of assistance (caoimhin@smo.uhi.ac.uk). We have mostly PCs here and I only rarely use a Mac.
Older information
Irish Accessories:
The best way to key accented characters on the Mac, especially if you
only need the acute accents used in Irish Gaelic, is to use Mike
Brady's Irish Accessories set of extras, which is downloadable
as shareware. As well as providing an easy way of keying accented
characters, this provides upgrades to some of the original Macintosh
system fonts (Geneva, Monaco and New York) since the original fonts
lack accents on some of the capital letters.
Ciarán Ó Duibhín has produced a deadkey Irish keyboard utility for the Mac.