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This volume offers an overview of all essential matters relating to language and society in Ireland. This includes information on both the English and the Irish languages in Ireland in a holistic sense, i.e. encompassing both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The book will be up-to-date and topical, reporting on the latest research into language in Ireland but with the additional focus of sociolinguistics to complement and enhance perspectives already offered in the field.

Contents

I.   Language and society in contemporary Ireland
English in Ireland: development and varieties	Raymond Hickey (Essen)
The Irish language in present-day Ireland	Brian Ó Catháin (Maynooth)
The Irish language and the media	Iarfhlaith Watson (UCD, Dublin)
Irish-English code-switching: a sociolinguistic perspective	Siobhán Ní Laoire (DIT, Dublin)
Language use in Ireland	Anne Barron and Irina Pandarova (Lüneburg)
II.   Language and society in Irish history
Language in medieval Ireland	Patricia Ronan (Lausanne)
From Early Modern Ireland to the Great Famine	Liam Mac Mathúna (UCD, Dublin)
Language shift and language revival in Ireland	Regina Uí Chollatáin (UCD, Dublin)
Language, politics and identity in Ireland	Tony Crowley (Leeds)
Emigrant letters	Kevin McCafferty (Bergen)
Society, language and Irish emigration	Raymond Hickey (Essen)
III.   Sociolinguistic interfaces
Irish language acquisition	Tina Hickey and Nancy Stenson (UCD, Dublin)
Irish writing in English	Carolina Amador Moreno (Extremadura)
Irish society as portrayed in Irish films	Shane Walshe (Zurich)
Translation and society in Ireland 1900-present	Kathleen Shields (Maynooth)
Sociolinguistic information in Irish English corpora	Elaine Vaughan and Brian Clancy (Limerick)