Pete Stuart, The Joiner from Bama, asked for help in understanding poetry written in Irish, for those of us who don’t have that language [níl mórán Gaeilge agam...]:

         > Commentary, annotations, and primer, especially on the
          > forms. Basically a course on Irish Poetry 101

…[&] I promised, more or less, to see what I could do to outline the basics of “Irish Poetry 101: The Self-Study Course”… […]

[1] On-line Resources for Irish Poetry

[2] A Bibliography of Real World [Non-Electronic] Texts

[3] Tracking the Wild Irish [Non-Electronic] Text

[4] A Partial Case Study  ... of one old Irish text, w/ a modern adaptation / translation into English.