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ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ Old Irish

Dictionaries

• 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.

• Old Irish Base Form Dictionary

  • Notes: Part of the great University of Texas collection.

• English-Old Irish Dictionary Online

  • Notes: Seems a bit small compared to other online options.

• Glossary and Verbforms Database

  • Notes: Different ways of searching, plus a thesaurus.

• English-Early Irish Wordlist

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: A PDF over 1000 pages long (!).

• Dictionary of Old Irish Glosses

  • Notes: For the Milan Codex Ambrosianus.

• Dictionary with Compendious Grammar

  • Notes: As has been shown repeatedly for other languages—compendious grammars are always best.

• Proto-Celtic Word List

  • Notes: For several different languages.

Grammars

• The Scholars’ Primer Grammar

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: In PDF form, a scan.

• Old Irish Lessons

  • Notes: Part of the University of Texas collection.

• Old Irish Grammar lessons 1-10

  • Format: DOC
  • Notes: A Word document.

• Old Irish Grammar lessons 11-20

  • Format: DOC
  • Notes: Another Word document.

• A Concise Grammar and Reader

  • Notes: An older book, free on the internet.

• Various Grammar Topics

  • Notes: Not really systematic, but decent explanations of some points.

• Irish Grammar Exercises

  • Notes: Set of translation exercises, also related to modern Irish.

• A First Old Irish Grammar

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: Another scan.

• A Brief Overview of the Verbal System

  • Notes: Or, why on earth would you want to learn this?

• Compendious Grammar with Dictionary

  • Notes: Also listed above.

Charts & Aids

• Online Verb Charts

  • Notes: These look great!

• Wikipedia Irish Conjugations

  • Notes: Has some useful information.

• Explanation of Conjugations

  • Notes: You can’t ever get enough help in the beginning.

• Old Irish Verb Charts

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: Explanations plus tables, in a nice PDF.

• Sample Verb Table

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: Overall, not that useful.

• Old Irish Noun Declensions

  • Notes: From Wikipedia.

• Old Irish Declensions

  • Notes: Charts online. Old Irish Nouns Explanations of gender, case, and so on.

Texts

• Old Irish Corpus Online

  • Notes: A very large collection.

• The Irish Aeneid

  • Notes: It isn’t hard enough in Latin, you know.

• An Old Irish Reader

  • Notes: Free online.

Other Resources

• Links to Cultural Resources

  • Notes: Lots of good stuff here, though a bit hard to navigate.

• Irish Culture

  • Notes: A small collection of information.

• Irish Folklore

  • Notes: Brought to you by the glory days of the internet!

• Irish Literature and Mythology

  • Notes: A large collection of links.

• Irish Mythology

  • Notes: From Wikipedia.

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