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Gaelic texts and Language Studies

 
Articles and Essays
Old Irish pronunciation Guide

Immram Brain; The Voyage of Bran
A new translation by Michael Ragan based on "The Voyage of Bran son of Ferbal published by Kuno Meyer.

The Colloquy of the Two Sages
A new translation by Michael Ragan based on the work of Whitley Stokes


 
Book References
Lebor Gabala Erenn, 5 volumes
R. A. S. MacAlister, Irish Text Society
The Metrical Dindshenchas, volumes 1 to 5
Edward Gwynn, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
The Book of Leinster (formerly Lebar na Núachongbála)
R. I. Best et al, eds 6 vols
Lebor na Cert
Myles Dillon
The Voyage of Bran, son of Ferbal
Kuno Meyer
(an)Irish English-Dictionary
Patrick S. Dineen, Irish text Society
A guide to Ogam
Damian MacManus
Sanas Cormac; Cormac's Glossary
Kuno Meyer
Dictionary of the Irish Language
E. G. Quin
O'Clerys' Glossary of Ancient Irish Words
W. K. Miller, ed.
Old-Irish Paradigms and Glosses
John Strachan
Old-Irish Workbook
E. G. Quin
Early Irish Verse
Ruth lehman
Exploring the Book of Kells
Otto Sims
Ogam; the poet's secret
Sean O'Boyle
The secret languages of Ireland
R. A. S. Macalister
Studies of Irish epigraphy
R. A. S. Macalister

 
Internet resources
A discussion forum for scholars and students of Old Irish
Old-Irish-L is forum for discussion of the language and literature of early Ireland. The main emphasis of the list is on Old and Middle Irish, but Primitive (Ogham) Irish and Continental Celtic (Gaulish, Celtiberian, etc.) as well as modern Celtic languages are also discussed when this material is relevant to Old Irish. The main working languages of this list are Gaelic and English.
List archives are availablehere.

Celt; Corpus of Electronic Texts
The CELT project is producing an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It will provide material for the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. The texts can be searched, read on-screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out.

Early and Late Medieval Irish Poetic Forms

Irish Scripts on Screen
Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) is a joint project of the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,and the School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, in partnership with Trinity College Library, Dublin. The object of ISOS is to create digital images of Irish manuscripts, and to make these images - together with relevant commentary - accessible on a WWW site.

Reading Old Irish, the values of the letters

Gaelic Language Time-line

Indo-European Linguistics Studies Links

 

 
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