Contents: Dedication: In Memoriam A. J. Bliss [iii] .Contributors [vi] .T P. Dolan Introduction [7] .Richard Wall Dialect in Irish Literature: The Hermetic Core [8] .Martin J. Croghan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, Maria Edgeworth and the Evolution of Hiberno-English [19] .P. L. Henry The Structure of Flann O'Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds [35] .Markku Filppula Substratum, Superstratum, and Universals in the Genesis of Hiberno-English [41] .Derek Britton and Alan Medieval Hiberno-English J. Fletcher Inscriptions on the Inscribed Slates of Smarmore: Some Reconsiderations and Additions [55] .John Harris More on Brogues and Creoles: What’s Been Happening to English Short u? [73] .Karen P. Corrigan Northern Hiberno-English: The State of the Art [91] .Jeffrey L. Kallen The Hiberno-English Perfect: Grammaticalisation Revisited [120] .Roger Lass Early Mainland Residues in Southern Hiberno-English [137] .Diarmaid 6 Muirithe A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy [149] .Michael Benskin The Hands of the Kildare Poems Manuscript [163] .Reviews by: Leon Hugo, Joseph M. Hassett, James Mays, Anna Yaria, Eddie Cousins, Maurice Harmon, Peter van de Kamp, Christopher Murray, Harry White, Niall MacMonagle, Sean Lysaght. [194] .Books Received [218]