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Older information, much of which may now be outdated and incorrect
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.
Other useful utilities for writing accented characters on the Mac:
By the way, if accented characters on WWW pages often come out wrongly on your Macintosh WWW browser - e.g. the accented characters in the table above - then the chances are that your browser is set to use MacRoman character encoding rather than Latin-1 encoding. Latin-1 is the default character encoding on WWW, so your browser should be set to use this. You'll probably be able to reset your browser's default character-encoding via the options menu.