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  Books on Irish English

Introductions and overviews
Ulster English
Dictionaries of Irish English
Corpora of Irish English
Celtic and English; Language Contact
Irish English beyond Ireland
Further aspects of Irish English


Introductions and overviews


Amador-Moreno, Carolina P. 2010. An Introduction to Irish English. London: Equinox.


Hickey, Raymond (ed.) 2011. Irish English in Today’s World. Special issue of English Today.


Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds) 2012. New Perspectives on Irish English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


Irish English. Varieties and Variations. Special issue of Études Irlandaises, edited by Maryvonne Boisseau and Françoise Canon-Roger.


Kallen, Jeffrey L. (ed.) 1997. Focus on Ireland. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


Dolan, Terence P. (ed.) 1990. The English of the Irish. Special issue of The Irish University Review 20.1. Dublin: n.p.


Filppula, Markku 1999. The Grammar of Irish English. Language in Hibernian style. London: Routledge.


Tristram, Hildegard L. C. (ed.) 2000. The Celtic Englishes II. Heidelberg: Carl Winter (sequel to the first volume published in 1997)..


Tristram, Hildegard L. C. (ed.) 2006. The Celtic Englishes IV. Potsdam: University Press (the final volume in this series).


Henry, Patrick Leo 1957. An Anglo-Irish Dialect of North Roscommon. Zürich: Aschmann and Scheller.


Joyce, Patrick Weston 1979 [1910]. English as we Speak it in Ireland. Dublin: Wolfhound Press.


Ulster English


Corrigan, Karen P. 2010. Irish English, Vol. 1: Northern Ireland. Edinbrugh: University Press.


Robinson, Philip 1997. Ulster Scots. A Grammar of the Traditional Written and Spoken Language. Belfast: Ullans Press.


Montgomery, Michael and Anne Smyth (ed.) 2003. A Blad of Ulster-Scotch frae Ullans: Ulster-Scots Culture, Language, and Writing. Belfast: Ullans.


Fenton, James 2006. The Hamely Tongue. A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim. Third edition. Newtownards: Ulster-Scots Academic Press.


Macafee, Caroline (ed.) 1996. A Concise Ulster Dictionary. Oxford: University Press.


Zwickl, Simone 2002. Language Attitudes, Ethnic Identity and Dialect Use across the Northern Ireland Border: Armagh and Monaghan. Belfast: Queen’s University Press.


Dictionaries of Irish English


Dolan, Terence P. 2004 [1998]. A Dictionary of Hiberno-English. The Irish Use of English. Second edition. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.


Share, Bernard 2003 [1997]. Slanguage – A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.


Ó Muirithe, Diarmuid 1996. Dictionary of Anglo-Irish. Words and Phrases from Irish. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

Corpora of Irish English


Kirk, John M. and Jeffrey L. Kallen 2008. ICE-Ireland: A User’s Guide. Belfast: Queen’s University Press.


Hickey, Raymond 2003. Corpus Presenter. Processing Software for Language Analysis. Including A Corpus of Irish English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


Bliss, Alan J. 1979. Spoken English in Ireland 1600-1740. Twenty-seven representative texts assembled and analysed. Dublin: Cadenus Press.


Celtic and English; Language Contact


Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola and Heli Pitkänen (eds) 2002. The Celtic Roots of English. Studies in Language, Vol 37. University of Joensuu: Faculty of Humanities.


Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto 2008. English and Celtic in Contact. London: Routledge.


Hickey, Raymond (ed.) 2010. Handbook of Language Contact. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell


Irish English beyond Ireland


Hickey, Raymond (ed.) 2004. Legacies of Colonial English. Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press


Montgomery, Michael 2006. From Ulster to America. The Scotch-Irish heritage of American English. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation.


Kirk, John M. and Dónall Ó Baoill (eds) 2001. Language Links: the Languages of Scotland and Ireland. Belfast: Queen’s University Press.


Further aspects of Irish English


Barron, Anne and Klaus P. Schneider (eds) 2005. The pragmatics of Irish English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.


Walshe, Shane 2009. Irish English as Represented in Films. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.


Crowley, Tony 2000. The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366-1922. A Sourcebook. London: Routledge.


Crowley, Tony 2005. Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004. Oxford: University Press.


Raymond Hickey (ed.) 2010. Varieties of English in Writing. The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.