Research Guides @ Fordham: Irish Studies: Old & Middle Irish Language

Dictionaries & Grammars Resources

electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language - eDIL
A digital dictionary of medieval Irish based on the Dictionary of the Irish Language from the Royal Irish Academy drawing on Old and Middle Irish materials between c.700-c.1700.

Dictionary of the Irish Language : Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials (Compact ed.) by E. G. Quin
Royal Irish Academy, 1983.
Call number [RH Reference Area] PB1291 .D49 1983
See eDIL for digital access to the full dictionary.

→ Use the link below to search the library catalog to see all available Irish dictionaries at Fordham:

Irish language -- Dictionaries -- English
English language -- Dictionaries -- Irish

A Student's Companion to Old Irish Grammar, 2nd ed. by Ranke de Vries
Forgotten Scholar Press, 2020.
Call number [RH Stacks] PB1221 .V74 2020

→ Use the link below to search the Fordham library catalog for electronic and print books covering Old & Middle Irish grammar:

Teaching & Learning Resources

Sengoidelc : Old Irish for Beginners by David Stifter
Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Call number [RH Stacks] PB1218 .S75 2006

Old-Irish Workbook by E. G. Quin
Royal Irish Academy, 1975 (1987 printing).
Call number SPEC COLL MCLEES 485; contact Archives & Special Collections for access.

Old Irish Online
Online resource for learning Old Irish developed by the Linguistics Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ancient Indo-European Grammars Online -- Old Irish
Offers video lectures and other Old Irish learning resources.

Search for Words in Digitized Texts

Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature This link opens in a new window
Full text of Latin texts from Medieval Ireland.

Early Irish Glossaries Database
Database of early Irish glossaries including Sanas Cormaic (Cormac’s Glossary), O’Mulconry’s Glossary and Dúil Dromma Cetta (the Collection of Druim Cett), as well as the shorter texts Loman and Irsan. Provided by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge.

Historical Irish Corpus, 1600 - 1926
Search for words and phrases in over 3000 texts published in Irish between 1600 and 1926.

Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
A research and teaching tool from University College Dublin offering digital editions of texts in Early and Medieval Irish.

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