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The present chapter attempts to describe the text corpus called A Corpus of Irish English (Hickey, 2003a) which contains some 90 texts that attest the history of Irish English from its beginnings (in written form) in the early fourteenth century to the early twentieth century. The considerations in this chapter are diachronic in nature and hence complement the synchronic examination of Irish English to be found in the chapter by Jeffrey Kallen and John Kirk in Volume 1 of the current work. Because of its historic nature, the corpus consists solely of texts, but again this kind of corpus could provide background information for corpora of present-day varieties of English such as that described by Anderson et al. (Volume 1). The corpus also links up with atlas-type projects such as that reported on for Dutch by Barbiers et al. (Volume 1) or that already published as Hickey (2004a).
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Hickey, R. (2007). Tracking Dialect History: A Corpus of Irish English. In: Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H.L. (eds) Creating and digitizing language corpora. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230223202_5
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