Pokorny Julius. A Concise Old Irish Grammar and Reader. Part 1: Grammar

Halle a S.: M. Niemeyer; Dublin: Hodges, Figgis; New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1914. — 135 p.This little book has been written in order to serve as an easy introduction to the scientific study of Old Irish. There is need for such a book; for the Manuals of Strachan and Thurneysen, excellent as they are, are not very well suited for beginners. Though the Old Irish literary remains that have been preserved in contemporary MSS. consist almost exclusively of Glosses and Scholia, a great number of fine stories and poems, going back to Old Irish times, have been preserved in later MSS., often corrupt and modernised by the mediaeval scribes, but not so much changed that it would not be possible to restore the original text with some certainty.