Hi,

Is anyone aware of any good resources for learning/studying classical Irish?

Go raibh maith agaibh,

Oscar

By classical, do you mean Old Irish ? If that's what you're looking for, you can look at the post about it that I made earlier.

Hey,

I'm actually referring to Early Modern Irish.

To answer your question, I suggest that you have a look at the Wikipedia page on this subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_Irish

When I saw this at first, I was under the impression that this term would have been used for describing the Irish literature of the 18th century, ie ;- Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche/The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman and the poetry of Aogán Ó Rathaile. If you want more information about them, I can oblige.

Thanks, I would be very interested in this information as well!

I ending up finding some interesting stuff on the internet archive thanks to that wikipedia article. I do find it to be a fantastic resource for older/out of print literature in Irish.

https://xn--lamh-bpa.org/

Is what you want. From what I've seen on Twitter, they're getting around to adding more stuff.

Thanks! I actually came across this and another once called celt.ucc.ie

For the Classical language, i.e. the highfalutin diction used exclusively in poetry, there has been a good few recent publications:

Chief among these is Eoin Mac Cárthaigh's edition of volume 1 (another 4 to go) of the Grammatical Tracts as set out in the Manuscripts by the poets / scribes themselves:
The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I: https://shop.dias.ie/product/the-art-of ... -tracts-i/

The older edition is also available here: https://shop.dias.ie/product/bardic-syntactical-tracts/

General introductions:
McManus, D., 'An Ghaeilge Chlasaiceach', in K. McCone et al. Stair na Gaeilge (Maynooth, 1994) 335-447.
McManus, D., 'The Irish Grammatical and Syntactical Tracts: A Concordance of Duplicated and Identified Citations', Ériu 48 (1997) 83-101: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/30007958.pdf

Other texts:
Mícheál Hoyne's Fuidheall Áir: Bardic poems on the Meic Dhiarmada of Magh Luirg c. 1377–c. 1637: https://shop.dias.ie/product/fuidheall- ... 77-c-1637/

There are also loads of editions of poems available. To that end, you may also be interested in the Bardic Poetry Database: https://bardic.celt.dias.ie/

Best,
Cian

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This is fantastic. Thank you!