Books for Irish

As you know I’m trying to teach myself Irish these days. My main sources are two books: Learning Irish by Micheal O’Siadhail and a three-volume set of Buntús Cainte which is, I think, an interesting and effective combination. I don’t want to fully review either of them but let me just say how their philosophies [...]

I have a bit of Irish.

I have said earlier that Irish was the first weird language I ever tried to learn. Let me now illustrate its weirdness in a couple of sentences. Its syntax is verb-initial, which is quite unusual for an Indo-European language: Deir Seán nach bhfuil siad sásta leis an gcoláiste. say-Sean-that.not-be-they-satisfied-with-the-college “Sean says that they’re not happy [...]