Labhrás wrote:
I would not recommend to go through a grammar book, but to use a teaching or selftutoring course.
BTW: Unfortunately, most grammar books don’t explain much. They just say: "So it is, get used to it!"
Admittedly, all grammar books are not created equally, but any good grammar book will cover the basics; what is the copula, what is a relative clause, what are pronouns, etc. This is the kind of foundation it will be necessary to have if you want to discuss what is going on in Irish by deconstructing phrases and sentences.
As for grammar books vs. teaching/self-learning, pick whichever is easiest for you to learn with. I find that 90% of the content of either is going to be the same as the other anyhow, and so I just lumped them all broadly under the banner of "grammar books" here. Maybe that's careless, but which sort is going to be most useful depends on the individual using the book, so I'm not inclined to draw much distinction or to recommend one over the other. Preferably, get both.
The specific book djwebb suggested in an earlier thread is particularly good in my opinion, and has the added benefit of being freely available online.