Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Voicing the ‘Knacker’: Analysing the Comedy of the Rubberbandits

Chapter 3 He’s After Getting Up a Load of Wind: A Corpus-Based Exploration of be + after + V-ing Constructions in Spoken and Written Corpora

Chapter 4 ‘I Intend to Try Some Other Part of the Worald’: Evidence of Schwa-Epenthesis in the Historical Letters of Irish Emigrants

Chapter 5 NEG/AUX Contraction in Eighteenth-Century Irish English Emigrant Letters

Chapter 6 A Corpus-Based Approach to Waiting for Godot ’s Stage Directions: A Comparison between the French and the English Version

Chapter 7 Samuel Beckett’s Irish Voice in Not I

Chapter 9 Voices from War, a Privileged Fado

Chapter 10 A Century Apart: Intimacy, Love and Desire from James Joyce to Emma Donoghue

Chapter 11 Foreign Voices and the Troubles: Northern Irish Fiction in French, German and Spanish Translation