Amador Moreno, Carolina P. An Introduction to Irish English.

Authors

Amador Moreno, Carolina P. An Introduction to Irish English. London: Equinox, 2010. pp. 191.

Shane Walshe

Shane WALSHE lectures at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a member of the editorial board of Dialectologia et Geolinguistica (DiG). He studied English and German at the National University of Ireland, Galway and was awarded a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Bamberg, Germany. His thesis Irish English as Represented in Film was published in 2009 and examines the way in which Irish English is portrayed in 50 films set in Ireland, ranging from John Ford’s “The Informer” (1935) to Lenny Abrahamson’s “Garage” (2007). This work and similar studies, such as Dialect Handbooks and the Acquisition of Stage Accents – A Critical Study (2009) and “‘Ah, laddie, did ye really think I’d let a foine broth of a boy such as yerself get splattered ...?’ – Representations of Irish English speech in the Marvel universe” (2012), strongly reflect the author’s interest in the representation of varieties of English in popular culture, and in the notion of linguistic stereotyping.