Thurneysen R. A Grammar of Old Irish

Dublin : Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1998.Part I of Rudolf Thurneysen Handbuch des Altirischen appeared in 1909 in the series Indogermanische Bibliothek published by Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg. Although the book was primarily intended for philologists-its purpose being, in the author's words, 'to make Old Irish accessible to those familiar with the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages'-it has been for more than a generation the standard work for all who have made Old Irish their special study. Since its SYSTEMation, however, considerable advance has been made in the investigation of the older language, much of it due to Thurneysen himself, and an up-to-date edition of the Handbuch has long been a desideratum of Irish scholarship.