rneysen,
Indices to the Irish words treated in Zeuss (Leipzig, 1881); E.
Windisch published the first grammar of Old Irish in 1879 (trans. by
N. Moore, Pitt Press, 1882), but Windisch's treatment of the verb was
rendered obsolete by the discovery of the laws of the Irish accent by
H. Zimmer, _Keltische Studien_ (Berlin, 1884), and R. Thurneysen,
_Revue celtique_, vi. 309, J. Vendreys, _Grammaire du Vieil-Irlandais_
(Paris, 1908); R. Thurneysen, _Handbuch des Alt-Irischen_ (Heidelberg,
1909). Mention should also be made of J. Strachan, _Selections from
the Old Irish Glosses_ (Dublin, 1904); and the same writer's _Old
Irish Paradigms_ (Dublin, 1905), _Stories from the Tain_ (Dublin,
1908). See also various papers on the Irish verb in the _Transactions
of the London Philological Society_ by Strachan (1895-1902); H.
Pedersen, _Aspirationen i Irsk_ (Copenhagen, 1898); C. Sarauw, _Irske
Studier_ (Copenhagen, 1901); G.J. Ascoli, _Archivio glottologico
italiano_, vols. v. and vi. For the study of Middle Irish--E.
Windisch, _Irische Texte mit Worterbuch_ (Leipzig, 1880). (Other
volumes in conjunction with W. Stokes.)
Editions of texts by W. Stokes, Kuno Meyer and others in the _Revue
celtique, Zeitschrift fur celtische Philologie, Eriu_. K. Meyer has
issued an exhaustive Mid. Irish glossary (A-D) as a supplement to the
_Archiv fur celtische Lexikographie_. The remainder is being published
under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy. The first grammar of
Modern Irish was published by Francis Molloy in 1677 at Rome under the
title of _Grammatica Latino-Hibernica_. Molloy was followed by
Jeremiah Curtin in 1728 with a book called _Elements of the Irish
Language_. Numerous other grammars were published towards the end of
the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century, but few of them
have any value. The more important of them are enumerated in the
introduction to O'Donovan's _Grammar_ and to Windisch's _Kurzgefasste
irische Grammatik_, and in Pedersen's _Aspirationen i Irsk_, pp.
29-47. We may mention W. Neilson's _Grammar_ (1808) as it is important
for the Irish of E. Ulster. But the greatest native grammarian was
John O'Donovan, who traversed Ireland in connexion with the Ordnance
Survey, and published in 1854 a comprehensive grammar noting the
differences between the various dialects. A little grammar published
by Molloy in 1867 is instructive on accoun
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