The Oxford Handbook of Irish English

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and former Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research centres around varieties of English, especially Irish English, eighteenth-century English, and issues of standardization of English, language contact, and areal linguistics, as well as sociolinguistic variation and change. Among his recent book publications are The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (CUP, 2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (CUP, 2020), and The Handbook of Language Contact (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).

• Part I. A framework for Irish English 1: Raymond Hickey: Irish English in today's world 2: Patricia Ronan: Language in Early Ireland 3: Raymond Hickey: The history of English in Ireland, 1200-1800 4: Marije van Hattum: Irish English in the nineteenth century 5: Liam Mac Mathúna: Irish-English bilingualism 6: Raymond Hickey: Contact between Irish and English Part II. Investigating Irish English 7: Raymond Hickey: The pronunciation of English in Ireland 8: Markku Filppula: The grammar of Irish English 9: John Kirk: The vocabulary of Irish English 10: Warren Maguire: Mid-Ulster English and Ulster Scots 11: Raymond Hickey: Urban English in Northern Ireland 12: Anne O'Keeffe: Irish English corpus linguistics 13: Joan O'Sullivan: Irish English in advertising 14: Shane Walshe: Irish English in the media 15: Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno: Emigrant letters from Ireland Part III. Irish English in use 16: Marion Schulte: Dublin English and third wave sociolinguistics 17: Arne Peters: Irish English in Galway city 18: Nicola J. Bessell: Irish English in Cork city 19: Anne Barron: Irish English and variational pragmatics 20: Carolina P. Amador-Moreno: Discourse-pragmatic markers in Irish English 21: Elaine Vaughan: Politeness strategies in Irish English 22: Raymond Hickey: The language of Irish literature in English Part IV. Language and the Irish diaspora 23: Raymond Hickey: The spread of Irish English 24: Sandra Clarke: From Ireland to Newfoundland 25: Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge: Irish influence on Australian English 26: Dania Bonness: The language of nineteenth-century immigrants to New Zealand Part V. The wider context 27: Stephen Lucek: Perceptions of Irish English 28: Chloé Diskin-Holdaway: Acquisition of Irish English 29: Brian Clancy: Language and Irish Travellers 30: Susanne Mohr and Lorraine Leeson: Irish Sign Language: Ireland's third language Glossary

These failings are regrettable. Nevertheless, the book does offer readers a rather comprehensive and readable account of Irish English, its history and its present-day situation.