I am an Irish learner and a fluent Scottish Gaelic speaker and I was wondering if anyone has read Bás I mBaile an Ghorta. I am thinking of buying it online but I would like to know first what level of Irish it is and any other impressions folks had of the book. I am very much an intermediate learner, so prose that was pitched too low, at very beginners would be frustrating. I can, with a dictionary, read even difficult Irish, my Scottish Gaelic of course helps with that, but I am trying to adjust my ear to hearing and understanding Irish, and I was attracted to this book because it is availble on CD as well. Thoughts?

Thank you very much, Tim

Tá sé agamsa, ach níor léigheas é fós, afách! I can look into it tonight to say how does it look like. From what I know it is Munster type of Irish

I know it well and have used it in classes. The level is good. There were new constructions in it for me like 'ní ba mhór' I think for past tense of bigger and 'nach mór críochnaithe' for almost finished. But it wasn't too hard to figure most of it out from context and the cd was very useful. It's a story about a group of adult Irish learners from different countries on a field trip to a famine museum area where they find a murder or two has occurred. The author, Míchael Ó Ruairc reads the story on CD himself, and apart from the fact that I didn't like his rendition of a Yank speaking Irish, it was a very nice package and I'd recommend buying it!

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'ní ba mhór' I think for past tense of bigger

Bheadh amhras orm faoi sin. Tabhair abairt dúinn!

ní mór do (is éigean do).

Ceud mìle taing, mar a chanas sinne an seo! That's a good recommendation. I will buy it today.

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From what I know it is Munster type of Irish

A Rómain,

Do you think "Bás I mBaile an Ghorta" might be helpful to
those of us who are learning the Munster dialect of Irish?

Ok, I reas the two chapters. It is rather simple, much caighdeán ("bhí siad", "freisin" et al), and not much Munster (although I spotted "éinne" there). Maybe, some expressions will be Munsteresque but in general this book won't advance you much in Munster Irish.