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  Articles on Irish English

Overview articles

Hickey, Raymond 2011. ‘Present and future horizons for Irish English’, in Raymond Hickey (ed.) Irish English in Today’s World. Special issue of English Today, Vol 106, June 2011, pp. 3-16.

Hickey, Raymond 2007. ‘Southern Irish English’, in David Britain (ed.) Language in the British Isles. 2nd edition. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 135-151.

Hickey, Raymond 2009. ‘Weak segments in Irish English’, in: Donka Minkova (ed.) Phonological Weakness in English. From Old to Present-day English. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 116-129.


History of Irish English

Hickey, Raymond 2010. ‘English in eighteenth-century Ireland’, in: Raymond Hickey (ed.) Eighteenth Century English. Ideology and Change. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 235-268.

Hickey, Raymond 2010. ‘Irish English in early modern drama. The birth of a linguistic stereotype’, in: Raymond Hickey (ed). Varieties of English in Writing. The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 121-138.

Hickey, Raymond 2008. ‘Feature loss in 19th century Irish English’, in Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds) The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on English Past and Present. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 229-243.


Transportation of Irish English

Hickey, Raymond 2010. ‘The Englishes of Ireland. Emergence and transportation’, in: Andy Kirkpatrick (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. London: Routledge, pp. 76-95.

Hickey, Raymond 2004. ‘Development and diffusion of Irish English’, in Raymond Hickey (ed.) Legacies of Colonial English. Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 82-117.


Legacies of Colonial English

Studies in transported dialects

Raymond Hickey (ed.)

Cambridge University Press, December 2004, 712 pages.