By ROBERT DWYER JOYCE, M.D.
Edited, with Annotations, by his brother, P. W. Joyce, LL.D.
Now ready. Cloth, richly gilt. Price 10s. 6d. net.
OLD IRISH FOLK MUSIC AND SONGS.
A Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs never before published. With Analytical Preface and a running Commentary all through.
Now ready (March, 1910); 350 pages: Cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. net.
ENGLISH AS WE SPEAK IT IN IRELAND.
Contents.—Chap. I. Sources of Anglo-Irish Dialect—II. Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting—III. Asserting by Negative of Opposite, IV. Idioms derived from the Irish Language—V. The Devil and his 'Territory'—VI. Swearing—VII. Grammar and Pronunciation—VIII. Proverbs—IX. Exaggeration and Redundancy—X. Comparisons—XI. The Memory of History and of Old Customs—XII. A Variety of Phrases—XIII. Vocabulary and Index.—Alphabetical List of Persons who sent Collections of Dialectical Words and Phrases.