CÚIRT NA DÁLA. By Shán Ó Cuív. This book contains two short stories in Irish in ordinary spelling and simplified spelling face to face, and a series of questions on the text to familiarise students with construction and give them fluency in transposition from one tense to another, and from direct to indirect narration, etc. The stories themselves deal with modern life in Ireland and are attractive reading. They introduce a useful vocabulary for the teaching of declensions and conjugations from the text. An admirable book for senior standards in primary schools and junior standards in secondary schools. 6d.
FICHE DUAN. An anthology of twenty Poems of the Modern Irish period by the best authors, beginning with a poem by Piaras Béaslaí and going back in chronological order to Keating’s poem on the Flight of the Earls. Selected both for their literary and linguistic content, these are an excellent introduction to the study of Modern Irish poetry. They are varied in subject and treatment, and introduce a great number of metres. They contain many moulds of Irish speech, which makes them very useful for teaching the language as well as the literature. In Gaelic and Simplified spelling. Edited with notes and an explanation of the metre of each poem by Shán Ó Cuív. 1s. 6d.
THE IRISH VERB SIMPLIFIED. By Osborn Bergin, Ph.D., and Shán Ó Cuív. Two specimen verbs, one in the first conjugation and the other in the second, classified in parts according to the different moods and tenses, with an idiomatic sentence for each part showing how the verbs are used by the best speakers and writers of Irish. The sentences for each verb are connected in sense, so that they can be easily memorised and provide models of the best usage. In Gaelic and simplified spelling on opposite pages. 2d.
SGÉALTA Â FILI NA RÓMHA. By Dómhnall O Mathghamhna. This is a series of stories from the Latin poets, now told for the first time in Irish. They introduce students to a section of the world’s greatest literature through Irish, and, while enriching the Irish language, provide refreshing reading. They are told in pure, idiomatic Irish. An ideal class book for Irish schools and colleges. Ordinary and simplified spelling facing. 1s. 6d.
CAOINE AIRT UI LAOGHAIRE, This beautiful elegy on the death of Art Ó Laoghaire by his wife, Eilín Duv Ní Chonail, is one of the finest compositions in Modern Irish. The metre is simple, and there is much less inversion of the prose order of the words than in lyric poetry. It contains many of the moulds of speech used in conversation and, for this reason, is most suitable as a text to be memorised by learners. Edited by Shán Ó Cuív. With an introduction in English and vocabulary. Gaelic and simplified spelling on opposite pages. 1s.
