Preface / References and acknowledgments / Abbreviations
Chapter 1:   §1 Old Irish and the Celtic languages - §2 Spelling and pronunciation - Text I: Daith bech buide - §3 Word order - Text II: Och, a luin - Assignments
Chapter 2:   §4 Nouns and adjectives: (i)o- and (i)ā-stems, singular - Text III: Cride hé - §5 Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and prepositions - Text IV: Úar ind adaig - §6 The definite article, singular - Assignments
Chapter 3:   §7 The verb: the present tense, third person singular - Text V: Atá ben istír - §8 The relative and passive verb forms - Text VI: Int én gaires - §9 Nouns and adjectives: i-, ī- and u-stems - Assignments
Chapter 4:   §10 Prepositions and prepositional pronouns; the emphatic suffixes - Text VII: Messe agus Pangur bán - §11 The present tense: complete paradigms; the substantive verb and the copula in the present tense - §12 The deponent verb in the present tense - Assignments
Chapter 5:   §13 The imperative - Text VII continued - §14 The noun: the consonantal stems - §15 The definite article in the plural - Text VIII: Fégaid úaib - Assignments
Chapter 6:   §16 The (i)o- and (i)ā-stems in the plural - Text IX: Int én bec - §17 The compound verb - §18 The preterite and the perfect, third person singular - Text X: Cétamon caín rée - Assignments
Chapter 7:   Text XI: Ro cúala - §19 The suffixed and infixed pronoun - §20 The numerals - Text XII: Imbu macán cóic bliadnae - §21 The subjunctive present - Text XIII: Dom-farcai - Assignments
Chapter 8:   §22 Word formation - Text XIV: A ben, bennacht fort - §23 The subjunctive past - §24 The degrees of comparison - Text XV: Cen áinius - Assignments
Chapter 9:   Text XVI: Ní fetar - §25 The future tense - Text XVII: Ticfa Tálcenn - §26 The uses of the cases - §27 The secondary future or conditional - Text XVIII: A Bé Find - Assignments
Chapter 10:   §28 Particles and prefixes; interrogative pronouns; demonstratives - §29 The imperfect or habitual past - §30 The adverbials - Text XIX: Aithbe dam cen bés móra - Assignments
Chapter 11:   §31 The preterite active and the perfect - §32 The dual - §33 The preterite passive and the participles - Text XIX continued - Assignments
Chapter 12:   §34 Coordination and subordination with conjunctions - §35 The verbal noun - §36 Phonological aspects - Text XIX concluded - Assignments
Appendix 1:   Middle Irish levelling
Appendix 2:   Verbal paradigms
Additional texts:   Text A: Is acher in gaíth innocht - Text B: Ar corrucán cumraide - Text C: Clocán bind - Text D: Is mebul dom - Text E: Techt do Róim - Text F: Is lán ler - Text G: Ron-bris, ron-bruí, ron-báid - Text H: Tánic sam - Text I: Scél lem dúib - Text J: Mac Ríg Múaide mid samraid - Text K: Ó fu-rócbath a chride - Text L: A ben, nacham s⋅aig-i-lle - Text M: Mé Éba, ben Ádaim uill - Text N: Tan bím eter mo s⋅ruithe - Text O: Is scíth mo chrob ón scríbainn.
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