Teach Yourself Irish Grammar

Eamonn O Donaill is an experienced teacher of Irish, teacher trainer, and creator of teaching materials. He is former Director of the Language Centre in the Department of Modern Irish, University College Dublin. He is the author of the multimedia self-instructional course Now You're Talking (published in the United States under the title of Irish on Your Own), and of two resource books for teachers of Irish, Abair Leat, Part 1 and Abair Leat, Part 2. He was also language co-ordinator of Turas Teanga, a new multimedia course for learners of Irish at the intermediate level funded by RTE and comprising a twenty-part series, a book, three audio CDs, and DVD set, and twenty radio programmes. Eamonn wrote the Turas Teanga course book; this publication reached number two in the Irish best-seller list in the week commencing February 23, 2004.

1 Irish spelling, accent and stress; 2 Articles and nouns; 3 Adjectives; 4 Comparatives and superlatives; 5 Adverbs; 6 Prepositions; 7 Pronouns; 8 The verb (1): first and second conjugations; imperative; 9 The verb (2): present tense; the verb 'bi'; 10 The verb (3): future tense; present tense with future meaning; 11 The verb (4): conditional mood; 12 The verb (5): imperfect tense; 13 The verb (6): present subjunctive; verbal adjectives and nouns; 14 The verb (7): irregular verbs; the copula; 15 The verb (8): passive forms; 16 Cardinal numbers; 17 Personal numerals; 18 Ordinal numbers; 19 Relative clauses; 20 Indirect speech; Appendix: names and surnames; place names; greetings; blessings; goodbyes; Glossary of grammatical terms; Grammar reference; Verb tables; Taking it further; Key to exercises; Grammatical index; Index of functions.