Hi!
I’ve grown quite a lot of interest into medieval lit recently and started to learn modern Irish as well. Thus said, I guess I tried to reconcile these two and I’ve been curious about medieval Irish and its literature, basically what would be called Celtic studies? Btw I know a bit of modern Welsh too.
Anyway, I was wondering: do you have any recommendation on how to know more about medieval Irish as a language and then its literature?
Whether it is books, videos, contents online mainly... Also, I’m very keen on manuscripts haha :)
Thank you!
for literature check out my "reading list" tag, i have a lot of posts with links and advice on where to start with medieval irish lit (particularly ulster cycle but not exclusively) and the various challenges and pitfalls of working with it
language is more challenging because there aren't a huge number of resources for self-teaching on this front, if you actually want to learn it and not just about it. the books i used as a student were quin's "old irish workbook" and strachan's "old irish paradigms and glosses" but these aren't very suitable for self-teaching bc they don't have proper explanations in them. stifter's "sengoidelc" is another option, personally i found it impenetrable bc of all the linguisticsy stuff but it works for some people. a new textbook of old irish is being prepared by rebecca shercliff and due to be published by the royal irish academy if little birdies have informed me correctly so that'll be good once that's out
i know there are some online resources out there but none that i've used personally and can vouch for. there were various memrise courses with old irish vocabulary but since these moved to the "community courses" site rather than the main site they're more challenging to access and you can't use them in the app which is a pain in the arse frankly
for manuscripts you want Irish Script on Screen (ISOS)
