Drawing on a rich heritage of Irish, English, Ulster Scots, Shelta, Hindustani, Swahili and many other linguistic resources, Hiberno-English has retained both its inventiveness and its vigour in a country which now plays host to some 167 languages, suggesting that Ireland will continue to make new words for old in the spirit of its own highly distinctive idiom.

From the reviews of previous editions

'This is worth its weight in gold-dust, for at last we have a proper, and often improper, dictionary of Irish slang.' Hugh Leonard, Sunday Independent

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