Irish English

• Irish English is often called Hiberno-English (from Latin Hibernia

- Ireland);

• Hiberno-English's spelling and pronunciation standards align with

British rather than American English;

• Hiberno-English has dialects: Nothern Irish English (Ulster

English), Southern Irish English, West and South-West Irish English,
New Dublin English.
 Grammatical fetures
Irish English Standard English

• I do write • I usually write

• I was after getting married • I had just gotten married

• Tell me did you see them • Tell me whether did you see them

• It only struck me and you going

• It only struck me when you going
out of the door
out of the door
• Imagine such a thing that you see
• Imagine such a thing to be seen here!
here!
 Words used only in
Irish English
• Hames means mess, and is
usually used in the phrase make a
hames of something;

• Cat is used as an adjective in

Ireland to mean awful or terrible;

• Thick in Irish English can mean

angry;

• Smacht is a noun loaned from

Irish meaning control, discipline,
or order.