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English As We Speak It in Ireland

by P. W. Joyce

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Sources of Anglo-Irish Dialect
  3. 3Chapter II — Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting
  4. 4Chapter III — Assertion by Negative of Opposite
  5. 5Chapter IV — Idioms Derived From the Irish Language
  6. 6Chapter V — The Devil and His ‘Territory’
  7. 7Chapter VI — Swearing
  8. 8Chapter VII — Grammar and Pronunciation
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Proverbs
  10. 10Chapter IX — Exaggeration and Redundancy
  11. 11Chapter X — Comparisons
  12. 12Chapter XI — The Memory of History and of Old Customs
  13. 13Chapter XII — A Variety of Phrases
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Vocabulary and Index
  15. 15Alphabetical List of Persons
  16. 16Works — P. W. Joyce, M.A., LL.D., T.C.D.; M.R.I.A.
  17. 17A Social History of Ancient Ireland
  18. 18A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland
  19. 19The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation — A Short History of Irelan…
  20. 20Outlines of the History of Ireland
  21. 21A Concise History of Ireland
  22. 22The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places
  23. 23Old Celtic Romances · A Grammar of the Irish Language — A Reading B…
  24. 24Ancient Irish Music — Irish Music and Song
  25. 25Irish Peasant Songs in the English Language · Old Irish Folk Music…

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