This collection of symposium papers on varieties of the English language used in Ireland includes: "The Role of Irish English in the Formation of Colonial Englishes," by P. Trudgill; "Anglo-Irish Verse in Translation from Irish," by P. L. Henry; "The Methodology of Urban Language Studies," by J. Milroy; "Questions and Answers: An Analysis of the Discourse Structure of Interviews," by L. Milroy; "Sociolinguistic Patterning in a New World Dialect of Hiberno-English: The Speech of St. John's, Newfoundland," by S. Clarke; "Hiberno-English and White West Indian English: The Historical Link," by J. P. Williams; "Word Stress in Hiberno-English," by Diarmuid O Se; "The Equative Sentence in Hiberno-English: Another Area of Interference from Irish?" by M. Filppula; "Hiberno-English: A Parametric Approach," by E. Guilfoyle; "The Co-Occurrence of 'Do' and 'Be' in Hiberno-English," by J. L. Kallen; "Still at It: Irish/English Interaction Today," by B. N. Shuilleabhain; "English Interrogation, Inversion and 'Do'-Support," by M. E. Vincent; "Syntactic Variation in the Speech of Belfast Schoolchildren," by C. Finlay and M. McTear; "The Lexicon in Phonological Variation," by J. Harris; "Differing Prestige Values for the (ky) Variable in Lurgan," by A. H. Pitts; "Friel's 'Translations': Hiberno-English and Existential Trauma," by P. Burke; "Phatic Communion in Flann O'Brien's 'The Third Policeman'," by P. Simpson; "Verbal Planning and Narrative Structure: The Belfast Narrative," by T. Vogel; "The Brogue: Language as Political Culture," by M. J. Croghan; and "English in Ireland: An Attitudinal Study," by P. A. Killian. (MSE)