Contents of handbook

I.   A Framework for Irish English

1.   Irish English in the Anglophone 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 (and other Ego-Documents) from Ireland (Carolina P. Amador-Moreno / Kevin McCafferty)

III.   Irish English in Use

16.   The Sociolinguistics of Dublin English (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-Pragmatics 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 English Influence on Australian English (Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge)

26.   Irish English and New Zealand English (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)