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Late Old Irish lenition and the modern Gaelic verb

In proposing several new and radical explanations for certain seemingly impenetrable aspects of the modern pan-Gaelic verb, the author has examined and analysed data from an extensive number of dialects in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, including a wide range of dialect studies, folklore collections and dialect maps (87 points in Ireland, 200 in Scotland and the corpus of Manx). The critical insights that emerge from this book are, furthermore, based upon a painstaking examination and stratified analysis of manuscript forms from all three countries, stretching over a period of fourteen centuries.