Irish English
Welcome to our Irish English page.
This is a growing list of resources regarding Irish English. These are links relating to how Irish has influenced English or how English is spoken in Ireland. Please leave any suggested links in the comments section.
Recent news related to Irish-English
15 February: £20m ‘pledge for Irish language‘
12 February: Conference – UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland
New Perspectives on Irish-English (11-14 March, 2010)
28 January 2010: An Irish language ‘elite’ may be good news.
21 January 2010: Irish schools need not teach English to junior infants.
15 January 2010: Irish speakers lead jobs race.
Our blog posts on Irish-English
A few more thoughts on Irish-English …
Sometimes Irish-English assimilates an Irish word into an English word that looks or sounds similar.
Smithereens: a word in bits and pieces.
The word’s popularity can probably be attributed at least partly to its euphony, the way it bounces out off the lips and teeth, pulling its Gaelic tail after it.
A face like a fur hatchet and alike. English in Norn Iron.
I think Northern Irish English is a very rich, highly expressive, and very funny language.
Long finger.
I marvel at the influence of the Irish language on English long after the language has ceased to be the native expression of the Irish.
Irish-English resources
John Loftus and Terence Patrick Dolan’s Hiberno-English Archive.
Cavanese: English as spoken in Cavan.
CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts.
Languages spoken in Ireland.
Here are some examples of Irish and English phrases to show how different the two languages are!
List of English words of Irish origin.
List of Irish words used in the English Language.
The Irish vernacular – idioms and phrases.
or: how to make sense of the Irish.
Irish slang
Everyday English and slang in Ireland.
‘… it’s an Irish sort of English’.
Common Irish slang from the BBC.
Irish Slang from Trip Advisor.
Irish slang from WhyGo.
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