Irish English

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Irish English

• Sociolinguistics Varieties of English
• Class 5

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Hiberno English

• Southern Irish English (Anglo Irish)
• More similar to RP
• Northern Irish English (Ulster Scots/Scots Irish)
• - More similar to Scottish English
• Irish Celtic language

3
History

• 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion under Henry
  II assimilated into Irish culture
• 16th century influx of English and Scottish
  Protestant settlers, mainly in the North, they
  soon outnumbered the Irish
• 1691 Battle of Boyne victory of the
  Anglican/Protestants. Catholics excluded from
  civil rights

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History continued

• 1801
• United Kingdom was founded. English became
  dominant language.
• Famine 1846-1851, 2 million Irish emigrated
• 1920
• Ireland was divided. In the Republic of Ireland
  Irish became official language and was
  reintroduced at school

5
Some Irish vocabulary

• To wither
• Throughother
• To gunder
• To boke
• Thats me away
• To go to the messages

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Stress in IrEng

• Educate
• Advertise
• Discipline
• Architecture
• Orchestra