Dillon Myles. Teach Yourself Irish
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IRISH
Irish is a Celtic language, closely related to Scottish Gaelic
and Manx, and is still spoken in small areas of Waterford,
West Cork and West Kerry, and in wider areas of
Connemara, Mayo and Donegal. This book has been
specially prepared by two expert teachers for all who wish
to learn to speak, read and write Irish, and to enable them
to do all three as quickly and as easily as possible. At the
same time, the authors have tried to serve the needs of those
who would like to know something of the language but have
no intention of speaking it.
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It will in time prove its own worth . . . it is
very difficult to achieve the perfection which
is so obvious in this text. Great talent and a
lot of hard work has gone into it.
Irish Press
IRISH
Myles Dillon
Formerly Senior Professor in the Dublin Institute for
Advanced Studies
Donncha Ó Cróinín
Professor of Irish in Our Lady of Mercy Training College,
Carysfort Park, Dublin
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Hodder and Stoughton
First printed 1961
Tenth impression 1977
Copyright @ 1961
Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction . . . . . . . . ix-xii
PART I
The Irish Alphabet . . . . . . . 3
Pronunciation . . . . . . . 7
Syncope . . . . . . . . 12
Rules for Aspiration . . . . . . 13
Rules for Eclipsis . . . . . . 18
Key to the Simplified Spelling . . . . . 21
PART II
Lesson
I The Simple Sentence . . . . . 25
II The Regular Verb . . . . . 31
III Cases of the Noun . . . . . 35
IV Present of the Verb “to be” . . . . 39
V The Verb “to have” and the Past Participle.
The Perfect Tense . . . . . 41
VI The Verbal Noun. Past and Future of the Verb
“to be” . . . . . . 44
VII Particles with ro. Personal Pronouns. Posses-
sives and Pronominals . . . . 47
v
VIII The Copula . . . . . . 52
IX Future, Imperfect, and Conditional Tenses.
The Adjective. Sitting, standing, etc. . 57
X Tá sé ina fhear. Is and Tá with adjectives.
Numerals from one to ten . . . 62
XI Declension of Nouns. The Second Conjugation 66
XII Rules for Gender. Abstract Nouns. Nouns of
agency. Diminutives. The Dual Number.
Prepositions . . . . . 70
XIII Prepositional Pronouns. Irregular Verbs:
“come” and “go”. The Verbal Noun . . 77
XIV Uses of the Prepositions. Irregular Verbs:
“hear” and “get” . . . . . 83
XV Prepositional Pronouns (contd.). Irregular
Verbs: “see” and “say” . . . . 88
XVI Conditional Sentences. Subordinate Clauses.
Conjunctions . . . . . 93
XVII Liking, thinking, wishing . . . . 99
XVIII Weak Plurals and Irregular Nouns . . 102
XIX Passive and Impersonal . . . . 109
XX Irregular Formation of the Verbal Noun. Uses
of the Verbal Noun . . . . 114
XXI The Adjective. Irregular Verbs: “bear” and
“give”; “do” and “eat” . . . . 118
XXII Irregular Comparison of Adjectives. The
Adverb . . . . . . 125
XXIII Ownership. Buying and Selling . . . 130
XXIV Numbers, days, months and seasons . . 136
XXV Imperative and Subjunctive . . . 142
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XXVI Relative Sentences . . . . . 147
XXVII Idioms. Defective Verbs. Points of Syntax . 151
Passages of Irish Prose and Verse . . . 155
Conclusion . . . . . . 161
PART III
Key to the Exercises . . . . . . 165
APPENDIX
Declension of Nouns . . . . . . 193
First Conjugation of Stems ending in a long vowel . . 197
Second Conjugation and Irregular Verbs . . . 199
VOCABULARY . . . . . . . 212
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List of Ammendments.
Posted on Box.net 2nd March 2010
Errors reported:
Page 47: Ex. 16, #5: ‘D1fhéach’ should read ‘D'fhéach’.
Page 50: Ex. 18, #9: ‘a&’ should read ‘ach’.
Page 97: Ex. 37B, #15: ‘orrn’ should read ‘orm’.
Page 100: Vocabulary: ‘beagin’ should read ‘beagán’
Reported by Joe Murphy 3rd March 2010. Corrected and reposted 3rd March 2010