@inbook{0c42922b81834c76be0c999c27b1e8f1,
title = "Ireland's Lexical Memory: Irish words in English Language Texts 1800-2016",
abstract = "{"}Con... I have no speech now{"}. When the boy asked {"}What else have you got?{"} the girl said {"}English{"}. When the boy asserted that surely English was speech she replied: {"}If it was, surely people would understand it?{"}. This reference to language transfer by a local girl to a servant boy on Canon Peter O'Leary's farm in the nineteenth-century shows how this transfer was a lived experience...",
keywords = "Language transfer, Irish syntax, English language",
author = "Dymphna Lonergan",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781743327159",
series = "Sydney Series in Celtic Studies",
publisher = "SYDNEY UNIVERSITY PRESS",
pages = "103--126",
editor = "Barrow, {Lorna G.} and Wooding, {Jonathan M.}",
booktitle = "Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World",
}