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The term 'Irish English' refers to varieties of English spoken in the island of Ireland. In the broadest sense it encompasses varieties which share a number of pronunciation and grammatical features as well as vocabulary items which serve to adequately delimit them from varieties of English beyond Ireland (Hickey 2012). The study of varieties of English has, in the last few decades, seen a great expansion in publications covering English world-wide. In this global context, Irish English has found its place and has been accorded due research attention, see Kirkpatrick (ed., 2020), Filppula, Klemola and Sharma (eds, 2017), Hickey and Vaughan (eds, 2017), Ball and Mesthrie (eds, forthcoming), Bolton (ed., forthcoming), Hickey (ed., forthcoming) and Moore and Montgomery (eds, forthcoming) as examples.