Table of contents : BOOK COVER......Page 1 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 INTRODUCTION......Page 8 UNIT ONE Spelling and pronunciation......Page 12 UNIT TWO Word order and simple sentences......Page 20 UNIT THREE Initial mutations: lenition......Page 28 UNIT FOUR Other mutations......Page 34 UNIT FIVE Nouns and articles......Page 42 UNIT SIX Noun classes and cases......Page 52 UNIT SEVEN Personal names......Page 64 UNIT EIGHT Place-names......Page 72 UNIT NINE Prepositions I......Page 78 UNIT TEN Basic numbers......Page 88 UNIT ELEVEN Verbs I: Present tense of regular verbs......Page 94 UNIT TWELVE Verbs II: Future tense of regular verbs......Page 102 UNIT THIRTEEN Verbs III: Past tense......Page 110 UNIT FOURTEEN Irregular verbs I......Page 118 UNIT FIFTEEN Irregular verbs II......Page 128 UNIT SIXTEEN The verb bí......Page 136 UNIT SEVENTEEN The copula is......Page 146 UNIT EIGHTEEN Other copula structures......Page 156 UNIT NINETEEN Verbal nouns I......Page 162 UNIT TWENTY Verbal nouns II......Page 170 UNIT TWENTY-ONE Adjectives......Page 180 UNIT TWENTY-TWO Pronouns......Page 188 UNIT TWENTY-THREE Prepositions II: More prepositional pronouns......Page 196 UNIT TWENTY-FOUR Possession and ownership......Page 204 UNIT TWENTY-FIVE Verbal adjectives and the present perfect......Page 214 IRISH–ENGLISH AND ENGLISH–IRISH GLOSSARIES......Page 222