Introduction: Strangers to ourselves the languages of Ireland
Michael Cronin and Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
Section one: languages in Ireland
Language interface in early Irish culture
Maria Tymoczko
The Latin language in early medieval Ireland
Jean-Michel Picard
The French language in medieval Ireland
Jean-Michel Picard
Translating Irelands: the English language in the Irish context
Terence Dolan
The eagle that never landed: uses and abuses of the German language in Ireland
Joachim Fischer
The historical presence of Ulster-Scots in Ireland
Philip Robinson
Irish one of the languages of the world
Liam Mac Cóil
Sign language interpreters: agents of social change in Ireland
Lorraine Leeson
Section Two: Ireland's languages and cultural crossover
Irish appropriation of Sophocles' Antigone and Philoctetes
Brian Arkins
French connections: twentieth-century Irish translations of French poets
Kathleen Shields
Memetics, metatranslation and cultural memory: the literary Imaginaires of Irish identity
Angela Ryan
Spaces between Irish worlds: travellers, translators and the new accelerators
Michael Cronin