Contents	5
	List of Figures	7
	List of Tables	9
	Introduction	11
	Bibliography	20
	Voicing the ‘Knacker’: Analysing the Comedy of the Rubberbandits	22
	1 Introduction	22
	2 Background: Limerick ‘Citaay’ and the Rubberbandits	24
	2.1 Limerick City	24
	2.2 The Rubberbandits	27
	3 Data and Methodology	31
	4 Analysis and Discussion	34
	5 Conclusion	43
	Bibliography	50
	He’s After Getting Up a Load of Wind: A Corpus-Based Exploration of be + after + V-ing Constructions in Spoken and Written Corpora	55
	1 Introduction	55
	2 The be + after + v-ing Structure: A Distinctive Feature of IrE	56
	3 This Study	60
	4 Findings from This Study	63
	5 Functions of the After Construction	66
	5.1 Focus on Immediate Outcome/Recency	67
	5.2 Past as Narrative Device	67
	5.3 Comparing (ha)ve (just) + pp. V after +ing	68
	6 Conclusions	70
	Appendix: Contemporary Irish Authors	71
	Bibliography	78
	‘I Intend to Try Some Other Part of the Worald’: Evidence of Schwa-­Epenthesis in the Historical Letters of Irish Emigrants	82
	1 Introduction	82
	1.1 Epenthesis in Irish English	83
	1.2 Egodocuments: Voices from the Past	84
	1.3 CORIECOR: Discourse across the Oceans	86
	2 Methodology	88
	2.1 Challenges	89
	3 Epenthesis in CORIECOR	92
	3.1 Clusters and Environments	95
	3.2 Geographical and Social Factors	99
	4 Conclusions	104
	Bibliography	109
	NEG/AUX Contraction in Eighteenth-­Century Irish English Emigrant Letters	112
	1 Introduction	112
	1.1 Negation Patterns in English: NEG/AUX Contraction Versus Full Form	114
	1.2 Aim and Scope	116
	2 Methodology	117
	3 Findings	121
	3.1 NEG/AUX Contraction with be	122
	3.2 NEG/AUX Contraction with will	123
	3.3 Geographic Origin of the Letter Writers	125
	3.4 Biological Sex	127
	4 Social Stratification	130
	5 Conclusions	134
	Bibliography	141
	A Corpus-Based Approach to Waiting for Godot’s Stage Directions: A Comparison between the French and the English Version	145
	1 Introduction	145
	2 Beckett and Bilingualism	147
	3 Methodology	148
	4 Analysis	153
	5 Differences between Waiting for Godot and En Attendant Godot	158
	6 Conclusion	167
	Bibliography	171
	Samuel Beckett’s Irish Voice in Not I	174
	Bibliography	188
	Bernard Shaw and the Subtextual Irish Question	192
	Bibliography	211
	Voices from War, a Privileged Fado	214
	1 Fado alexandrino and El raro privilegio	215
	2 War and Fiction, Argentina and Portugal	218
	3 Being Back in the Motherland	220
	4 A Category of Other(s)	222
	5 Dislocated Voices	223
	6 Conclusion	232
	Bibliography	237
	A Century Apart: Intimacy, Love and Desire from James Joyce to Emma Donoghue	239
	1 From James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ to Emma Donoghue’s ‘Speaking in Tongues’	239
	2 On the Desire for, and Fear of, Love and Intimacy	243
	3 Voicing Resistance, Love and Desire in ‘The Dead’	247
	4 Voicing Love and Desire in ‘Speaking in Tongues’	253
	5 Intimacy and Vulnerability in ‘The Dead’ and ‘Speaking in Tongues’	258
	Bibliography	265
	Foreign Voices and the Troubles: Northern Irish Fiction in French, German and Spanish Translation	268
	1 The Challenge of Translating Northern Irish Voices	268
	2 Reproduced, Silenced and Added Voices in Translation	270
	3 Transferring Local Humour into a New Environment	274
	4 ‘The Blah Blah Blackberries’: Experimenting with the Sense of Nonsense	277
	5 Struggling with the ‘Untranslatable’: The Difficulty of Transferring Telling Titles	281
	6 Misunderstanding Local Behaviour	284
	7 Conclusion	288
	Bibliography	291
	Index	293