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ICE-Ireland

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English has been spoken in Ireland since the sixteenth century. By 1800, it was regularly used by around 50% of the population, and is now the first language of 98-99% of the population (McArthur 1992). The remaining 1-2% speak Irish Gaelic. In the Republic of Ireland, Irish Gaelic is the official language, with English designated as the 'second official language'. Population: c.3.8 million (Republic), c.1.6 million (Northern Ireland).

Reading
Kallen, Jeffrey L & John M. Kirk (2012) SPICE-Ireland: A User's Guide. Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona.
Kallen, Jeffrey L & John M. Kirk
(2008) ICE-Ireland: A User's Guide. Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona.
Kallen, Jeffrey L & John M. Kirk (2007) 'ICE Ireland: Local Variations on Global Standards, in Beal, Joan C., Karen P. Corrigan, and Hermann L. Moisl (eds) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, vol. 1: Synchronic Databases. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.121-62.
Kirk, John M. & Jeffrey L. Kallen (2006) 'Irish Standard English: How Celticised? How Standardised?', in Tristram, Hildegard L.C. (ed.) The Celtic Englishes IV: The Interface between Englsh and the Celtic Languages. Potsdam: Potsdamer Universitätsverlag. pp.88-113.

Links

Online Newspapers

Irish Times
Belfast Telegraph
Online Radio Stations
RTE Radio
BBC Radio Ulster

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Contact

The ICE Ireland project includes both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and was carried out at The Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. 

 

Websitehttp//www.johnmkirk.co.uk

Under 'Research Projects', see 'ICE-Ireland' and 'SPICE-Ireland'.

 

Contact:

Dr John Kirk
4 Parkvue Manor
Gilnahirk Park
Belfast BT5 7TJ 
Northern Ireland

Email: jk@etinu.com
 

Dr Jeffrey Kallen 
Centre for Language and Communication Studies 
Trinity College Dublin 
Dublin 2 
Ireland

Email: jkallen@tcd.ie