- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights - ICESCR
Ratified: 8 December 1989.
Reports submitted/due: 2/2
Reservation: Ireland recognises the inalienable right and duty of parents to provide for the education of children, and, while recognising the State's obligations to provide for free primary education and requiring that children receive a certain minimum education, nevertheless reserves the right to allow parents to provide for the education of their children in their homes provided that these minimum standards are observed.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - ICCPR
Ratified: 8 Dec 1989.

Optional Protocol to the ICCPR – Acceded: 8 Dec 1989.
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Ratified: 29 December 2000.

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - CEDAW
Acceded: 23 December 1985.
- Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
Ratified: 28 September 1992.

- International Convention on the protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Their Families – CMV

No action

 - International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – CRPD

Signed: 30 Mar 2007.