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ITWE SPEAKASENGLISHIRELAND.INENGLISH AS ITWE SPEAI^IN IRELANDP. W. M.R.I.A.JOYCE, LLD., T.O.D.,One the Commissioners the Publication the AncientLaws Irelandof for of ofLate the Government Training College,Principal ofDublinMarlbcrough Street,Late President the Irelandof Royal Society of Antiquaries,SPEECH.THE LIFE OF A PEOPLE IS PICTURED IN THEIR: & CO.LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN,LTD.DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON,i\1910 . bPEEFACE.ofTHIS book deals with the Dialect the Englishin Ireland.that isLanguage spokenaAs the Life of to ourpeople accordingin their ourmotto is pictured speech, picturebe a for twoto wereone,ought good languagesconcerned in it Irish and TheEnglish. parteach will be found set forthspeciallyplayed byin IV and VII and in farther detailChapters ;the whole book.throughoutThe articles and that havepamphlets alreadyon this which areappeared interesting subjectalldescribed below are short. Some are full ofobservation but arekeen mere lists; very manyof dialectical words with their Heremeanings.for the first time in this little volume of mineour Dialect is to detailedAnglo-Irish subjectedand classification.analysis systematicI have been formaterials this bookcollectingfor more than not indeed;twenty years by wayof constant but off and on as detailed below.work,The sources from which these materials werederived are thedirectly mainly following.First. own is a storehouse bothMy memoryof idiom and for the reason;vocabulary ...
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ITWE SPEAKASENGLISH
IRELAND.IN ENGLISH AS ITWE SPEAI^
IN IRELAND
P. W. M.R.I.A.JOYCE, LLD., T.O.D.,
One the Commissioners the Publication the AncientLaws Irelandof for of of
Late the Government Training College,Principal of
DublinMarlbcrough Street,
Late President the Irelandof Royal Society of Antiquaries,
SPEECH.THE LIFE OF A PEOPLE IS PICTURED IN THEIR
: & CO.LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN,
LTD.DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON,
i\1910 . b PEEFACE.
ofTHIS book deals with the Dialect the English
in Ireland.that isLanguage spoken
aAs the Life of to ourpeople according
in their ourmotto is pictured speech, picture
be a for twoto wereone,ought good languages
concerned in it Irish and The
English. part
each will be found set forthspeciallyplayed by
in IV and VII and in farther detailChapters ;
the whole book.throughout
The articles and that havepamphlets already
on this which areappeared interesting subject
alldescribed below are short. Some are full of
observation but arekeen mere lists; very many
of dialectical words with their Heremeanings.
for the first time in this little volume of mine
our Dialect is to detailedAnglo-Irish subjected
and classification.analysis systematic
I have been formaterials this bookcollecting
for more than not indeed;twenty years by way
of constant but off and on as detailed below.work,
The sources from which these materials were
derived are thedirectly mainly following.
First. own is a storehouse bothMy memory
of idiom and for the reason
;vocabulary good
that from childhood Ito manhoodearly spoke
like those whom I richlived the dialectamong VI PREFACE.
Limerick and Cork andof. indeed to some
extent it still in the ofspeak colloquial language
life.everyday
I have also drawn on ourpretty largely Anglo-
Irish Folk of which I have aSongs great
incollection, and onpartly my memory partly
sheets for often reflect; theyprinted faithfully
our Dialect.
Second. I wrote aEighteen years ago (1892)
short letter which was inserted in all thenearly
and inIrish of thosenewspapers very many
outside inten-Ireland,published announcing my
tion to write a book on andDialect,Anglo-Irish
for collections of dialectical words andasking
In to this I received aresponsephrases. very
number of communications from all
large parts
of as well as from outside evenIreland, Ireland,
from and New Zealand allAmerica, Australia,
andmore or less to the thepoint, showing great
interest taken in the Theirwidespread subject.
of course varied butgreatly ; manyimportance
valuable. I at the end of thewere very give
book an list of those contributors :alphabetical
and I the most of themacknowledge important
the book.throughout
of Irish writers ofThird. The works novels,
Irish life inandstories, peasantessays depicting
the are made to in dialect.which speakpeople
of these are mentioned inSome I.,Chapter
and others are the book asquoted throughout
occasion requires. PKEFACE. Vll
Printed articles and onFourth. pamphlets
of Dialect. Ofthe Anglo-Irishspecial subject
that I have come across arethese the principal
the :
following
'
The Provincialisms of Belfast and Surround-
District out and Davidcorrected/ing pointed by
Patterson. (1860.)
'
ofRemarks on the Irish Dialect the English
D.C.L. andA. LL.D.Hume,Language/ by (1878.)
'A of Words in in Countiesuse theGlossary
of Antrim and Wm.Down/ Patterson,by Hugh
M.R.I.A. a indeed(1880) large pamphlet might
be called a book.
' ' '
Colonel O'Critical : aDon't, Pat/ by very
and useful little marred agood pamphlet, by silly
title which turns the wholeup perpetually through
till the reader sick of it.pamphlet gets (1885.)
'A List of Peculiar "Words and Phrases at one
'
time in in :use and SouthArmagh Donegal
D. A. Simmons. This List was anno-by (1890.)
tated at the of whoMr.me, Simmons,by request
at or about that President of the Irishwas, time,
National Teachers' Association.
A Series of Six Articles on The inUnf/lish
'
Ireland in The Educationalby myself, printed
Dublin.Gazette'; (1890.)
'The the Rev .WilliamAnglo-Irish Dialect/ by
Burke Irish in(an ;priest residing Liverpool)
'*
in The Irish Ecclesiastical Record.published
for 1896. A and whichjudicious scholarly essay,
I have often used.very
