ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ Old Irish
Old Irish is a richly attested early medieval Celtic language, preserved in glosses, poems, and prose texts. It’s a rewarding path into Celtic linguistics and medieval Irish literature.
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Dictionaries
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Electronic Dictionary of Old/Middle Irish
- Notes: The most important Irish dictionary. With quick and advanced searches—see the help link on the right side of the toolbar.
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Old Irish Base Form Dictionary
- Notes: Part of the great University of Texas collection.
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English-Old Irish Dictionary Online
- Notes: Seems a bit small compared to other online options.
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Glossary and Verbforms Database
- Notes: Different ways of searching, plus a thesaurus.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: A PDF over 1000 pages long (!).
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Dictionary of Old Irish Glosses
- Notes: For the Milan Codex Ambrosianus.
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Dictionary with Compendious Grammar
- Notes: As has been shown repeatedly for other languages—compendious grammars are always best.
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- Notes: For several different languages.
Grammars
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: In PDF form, a scan.
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- Notes: Part of the University of Texas collection.
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Old Irish Grammar lessons 1-10
- Format: DOC
- Notes: A Word document.
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Old Irish Grammar lessons 11-20
- Format: DOC
- Notes: Another Word document.
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- Notes: An older book, free on the internet.
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- Notes: Not really systematic, but decent explanations of some points.
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- Notes: Set of translation exercises, also related to modern Irish.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Another scan.
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A Brief Overview of the Verbal System
- Notes: Or, why on earth would you want to learn this?
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Compendious Grammar with Dictionary
- Notes: Also listed above.
Charts & Aids
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- Notes: These look great!
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- Notes: Has some useful information.
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- Notes: You can’t ever get enough help in the beginning.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Explanations plus tables, in a nice PDF.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Overall, not that useful.
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- Notes: From Wikipedia.
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- Notes: Charts online. Old Irish Nouns Explanations of gender, case, and so on.
Texts
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- Notes: A very large collection.
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- Notes: It isn’t hard enough in Latin, you know.
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- Notes: Free online.
Other Resources
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- Notes: Lots of good stuff here, though a bit hard to navigate.
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- Notes: A small collection of information.
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- Notes: Brought to you by the glory days of the internet!
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Irish Literature and Mythology
- Notes: A large collection of links.
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- Notes: From Wikipedia.
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