The Irish language, also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaelige, is spoken today by approximately a million people worldwide. It is also the basis of the Irish literary tradition, which is the oldest in Europe after Greek and Latin. Whether you want to connect to your Irish heritage or carry on a conversation when visiting the Gaeltachtai (small rural pockets in Ireland where Irish is the first language spoken), Beginner's Irish with Online Audio is the perfect start!

Ideal for those new to Irish, learning at home or in the classroom, this guide includes a brief history of the Irish language; 10 carefully-paced and practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and expressions; a guide to the Irish alphabet and pronunciation; and online MP3 audio files for free download featuring pronunciation by native speakers. The author uses the medium of poetry to enrich the reader's study of Irish. Numerous examples from Irish literature and poetry, as well as common proverbs and sayings, help teach vocabulary and grammar in an engaging way. A chapter on Irish names and their origins and another on Geography and Tourism round out this unique guide to learning Irish.

Rosenstock is the author and translator of over 100 books, including 13 volumes of poetry in Irish. Uttering Her Name is his debut volume in English. A member of Aosdana (the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters), he has given readings in Europe, the US, India, Australia, Japan and has been published in various leading international journals including Akzente, Neue Rundschau, and die horen (Germany), Poetry (Chicago) and World Haiku Review. His selected poems (from the Irish) have appeared in German, English, and Hungarian.

Stories set in Ireland, Slovenia, Slovakia, and India, penetrating stories woven out of Gabriel Rosenstock's own fantastic worlds, some newly translated from the Irish, others appearing in English for the first time. 'The Partisan and other stories' has a stunning range of moods, styles, voices and themes - from the quirky and mirth-provoking to the magically lyrical - all inviting the reader to engage in an entrancing and passionate conversation about the nature of reality.

This volume contains a series of amusing short four-line poems beginning with Irish place-names and with place-names from elsewhere in the world.