We present a study of cross-lingual direct transfer parsing for the Irish language. Firstly we\ndiscuss mapping of the annotation scheme of the Irish Dependency Treebank to a universal dependency scheme. We explain our dependency label mapping choices and the structural changes\nrequired in the Irish Dependency Treebank. We then experiment with the universally annotated\ntreebanks of ten languages from four language family groups to assess which languages are the\nmost useful for cross-lingual parsing of Irish by using these treebanks to train delexicalised parsing models which are then applied to sentences from the Irish Dependency Treebank. The best\nresults are achieved when using Indonesian, a language from the Austronesian language family.