Oxford Handbook of Irish English

Raymond Hickey

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 698 pages.

The Oxford Handbook of Irish English offers an overview of all essential matters relating to the English language in Ireland. This includes information on both the English and the Irish languages in their historical framework as well as in-depth treatments of the complete range of varieties of English on the island of Ireland, i.e. encompassing both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. All levels of language, from pronunciation to pragmatics, is given due consideration in dedicated chapters. Appropriate attention is also paid to the wider context of language and society, history and literature. The handbook contains a useful glossary for readers and a comprehensive index to enable a quick orientation in the topics and issues in the wide-rangeing chapters.

Contents

Preface

I A framework for Irish English

1. Irish English in Today's World
    Raymond Hickey

2. Language in Early Ireland
    Patricia Ronan

3. The History of English in Ireland, 1200-1800
    Raymond Hickey

4. Irish English in the Nineteenth Century
    Marije van Hattum

5. Irish-English Bilingualism
    Liam Mac Mathúna

6. Contact between Irish and English
    Raymond Hickey

II Investigating Irish English

7. The Pronunciation of English in Ireland
    Raymond Hickey

8. The Grammar of Irish English
    Markku Filppula

9. The Vocabulary of Irish English
    John Kirk

10. Mid-Ulster English and Ulster Scots
    Warren Maguire

11. Urban English in Northern Ireland
    Raymond Hickey

12. Irish English Corpus Linguistics
    Anne O'Keeffe

13. Irish English in Advertising
    Joan O'Sullivan

14. Irish English in the Media
    Shane Walshe

15. Emigrant Letters from Ireland
    Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno

III Irish English in use

16. Dublin English and Third Wave Sociolinguistics
    Marion Schulte

17. Irish English in Galway City
    Arne Peters

18. Irish English in Cork City
    Nicola Bessell

19. Irish English and Variational Pragmatics
    Anne Barron

20. Discourse-Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
    Carolina P. Amador-Moreno

21. Politeness Strategies in Irish English
    Elaine Vaughan

22. The Language of Irish Literature in English
    Raymond Hickey

IV Language and the Irish diaspora

23. The Spread of Irish English
    Raymond Hickey

24. From Ireland to Newfoundland
    Sandra Clarke

25. Irish Influence on Australian English
    Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge

26. The Language of Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to New Zealand
    Dania Bonness

V The wider context

27. Perceptions of Irish English
    Stephen Lucek

28. Acquisition of Irish-English by Recent Migrants
    Chloé Diskin-Holdaway

29. Language and Irish Travellers
    Brian Clancy

30. Ireland's Third Language: Irish Sign language
    Susanne Mohr and Lorraine Leeson

Glossary
Index