Irish Grammar: A Basic Handbook

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Summary: I use it as an alternate reference guide
Review: My main Irish text is Learning Irish by Michael O'Siadhail. I use this book to get someone else's view on certain grammar points.
If you're going to learn a language I highly recommend that you first read How to Learn Any Language. Once you've done that you'll find that a book like Irish Grammar easily fits into that learning framework.
This book helps you to start to sort out why the Irish you've been reading in the newspaper is aranged the way it is. You'll begin to make a little more sense of the use of verbs, for instance.
It's a good basic grammar. However, no grammar book should ever stand alone.

Rating:
Summary: Good basic grammar
Review: This book is excellent for beginners who are wanting a book that gives basic grammar without all the extra information that confuses beginners. The book is well laid out, with information very easy to find. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is that it is a little too brief. A few more examples of how the grammar works would have improved it greatly.

Rating:
Summary: Poor
Review: Very incomplete.
e.g., the section on nouns mentions declensions, but neither defines nor enumerates the declension.
The imperfect tense is shown, but the difference between imperfect and past tenses is not mentioned.
Pronunciation (which definitely affects the grammar, e.g., the -f- of the future tense) is ignored (outside of the distinction between slender and broad consonants).
Don't waste your money.