This book studies the uses of the dialect known as Hiberno-English
in the works of several canonical Irish writers of the twentieth
century: James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, George Bernard Shaw and Brian
Friel. Irish writers of this period faced the challenge of creating
a literature in English that would be independent of the English
literary tradition. The use of Hiberno-English is both a literary
device and a practice that bears on the question of an Irish
national identity. This work examines above all the uses of
Hiberno-English as a literary device. One of the potential
functions of a literary text is to call into question received
ideas, and the texts discussed here do this with the help of
Hiberno-English. Here, this dialect stands as a form of
authenticity which is questioned and through which received ideas
are criticised. This book also contains a large corpus whose
primary purpose is to record the abundance of Hiberno-English in
the works under review. The corpus provides a gloss and outlines
the grammatical and phonetic features of Hiberno-English.
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