Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Stephen Lucek, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, John Kirk PartI – Irish English: Structuresand Cross-Varietal Perspectives 1. Conservative and innovator?: J.M. Synge and the Irish English Be after V-ing construction Kevin McCafferty 2. "You are some foreigner – you are not even from this country": Comparative Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Diasporas in an Irish ContextCarolina P. Amador-Moreno, Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma & Karen P.Corrigan 3. The variable fortunes of the Were-subjunctive in varieties of English Markku Filppula 4. I Had the Dinner Eaten, But She Has a Tooth Gone: Causer and experiencer HAVE constructions in Traditional IrE Gili Diamant PartII – Irish English: Discourse and Pragmatics 5. "Bloody Hell, I'm Grand": Adjectives in spoken Irish and BritishEnglish Anne O'Keefe & Geraldine Mark 6. "Sorry Miss, I completely forgot about it": Apologies and vocatives in Ireland and England Anne Barron 7. Absolutely fantastic and really, really good: Language Variation and Change in Irish English Martin Schweinberger 8. Exploiting pragmatic markers in radio advertising in Ireland Joan O'Sullivan 9. Sociopragmatic perspectives on Irish English discourse-pragmatic markers: An analysis of But in Dublin English Marion Schulte 10. Confrontational humour in a Dublin sports club: Flouting the conversational maxims of indirectness Fergus O'Dwyer PartIII – Irish English: Symbols, Landscapes and Perceptions 11. Perceptual dialectology between varieties of Irish English: The Relationship betweenlinguistic and politicalboundaries on the island of Ireland Vicky Garnett & Stephen Lucek 12. Brexit, borders and belonging in Northern Ireland: Exploring the linguistic landscape of the political border in Ireland Deirdre Dunlevy 13. Indexing Irishness in linguistic landscaping: A touristic perception of the use of Irish language and Irish-style fonts Patricia Ronan 14. Heritage, identity and language use in public spacesIreland Raymond Hickey 15. Irish English and World Englishes John Kirk