1. Introduction (by Amador-Moreno, Carolina P.); 2. The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish (by Hickey, Raymond); 3. "I always think of people here, you know, saying 'like' after every sentence": The dynamics of discourse-pragmatic markers in Northern Irish English (by Corrigan, Karen P.); 4. A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English (by Murphy, Brona); 5. Kind of and sort of: Pragmatic discourse markers in the SPICE-Ireland Corpus (by Kirk, John M.); 6. A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English (by Schweinberger, Martin); 7. "Actually, it's unfair to say that I was throwing stones": Comparative perspectives on uses of actually in ICE-Ireland (by Kallen, Jeffrey L.); 8. "'Tis mad, yeah": Turn openers in Irish and British English (by McCarthy, Michael); 9. Turn initiators in professional encounters: Teacher education discourse in an Irish University setting (by Farr, Fiona); 10. "And your wedding is the twenty-second of June is it?": Tag questions in Irish English (by Barron, Anne); 11. "Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast": Examining the use of vocatives as pragmatic markers in Irish Traveller and settled family discourse (by Clancy, Brian); 12. Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring: Modality as evidence of trauma in the 1641 depositions (by Wilson, John); 13. "Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections": Pragmatic markers in the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, 1750 1940 (by Amador-Moreno, Carolina P.); 14. Blathering Beauties: The use of pragmatic markers on an Irish beauty blog (by Millar, Sharon); 15. Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland (by O'Sullivan, Joan); 16. "Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn't that big into school, you know": Pragmatic markers and the representation of Irish English in fictionalised dialogue (by Palma-Fahey, Maria); 17. "There's, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything": Fictional representations of new pragmatic markers and quotatives in Irish English (by Amador-Moreno, Carolina P.); 18. Now in the speech of newcomers to Ireland (by Migge, Bettina); 19. The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech (by Nestor, Niamh); 20. Name index; 21. Subject index