PART I: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND <br>1. English in Ireland: Development and Varieties; Raymond Hickey<br>2. The Irish Language in Present-day Ireland ; Brian Ó Catháin<br>3. The Irish Language and the Media; Iarfhlaith Watson<br>4. Irish-English Code-switching: a Sociolinguistic Perspective; Siobhán Ní Laoire<br>5. The Sociolinguistics of Language Use in Ireland; Anne Barron and Irina Pandarova<br>PART II: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN IRISH HISTORY<br>6. Language Relations in Early Ireland; Patricia Ronan<br>7. From Early Modern Ireland to the Great Famine; Liam Mac Mathúna<br>8. Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland; Regina Uí Chollatáin<br>9. Language, Politics and Identity in Ireland: A historical Overview; Tony Crowley<br>10. Emigrant Letters: Exploring the 'Grammar of the Conquered'; Kevin McCafferty<br>11. Society, Language and Irish Emigration; Raymond Hickey<br>PART III: SOCIOLINGUISTIC INTERFACES<br>12. Second Language Acquisition of Irish and the Roleof Reading; Tina Hickey and Nancy Stenson<br>13. The Language of Irish Writing in English; Carolina Amador-Moreno<br>14. Irish Society as Portrayed in Irish Films; Shane Walshe<br>15. Translation and Society in Ireland 1900-present; Kathleen Shields<br>16. Sociolinguistic Information and Irish English Corpora; Elaine Vaughan and Brian Clancy<br>