I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction -- Irish English: A focus on language in action -- Irish English in the context of previous research -- Irish English in the Private Sphere -- Silence and mitigation in Irish English discourse -- Discourse markers in Irish English: An example from literature -- No problem, you 're welcome, anytime: Responding to thanks in Ireland, England, and the USA -- Offering in Ireland and England -- You're fat You'll eat them all: Politeness strategies in family discourse -- Irish English in the Official Sphere -- Relational strategies in the discourse of professional performance review in an Irish academic environment: The case of language teacher education -- Indirectness in Irish-English business negotiation: A legacy of colonialism? -- Whatcha mean? The pragmatics of intercultural business communication in financial shared service centres -- Three forty two so please: Politeness for sale in Southern-Irish service encounters -- Irish English in the Public Sphere -- You've a daughter yourself? A corpus-based look at question forms in an Irish radio phone-in -- A relevance approach to Irish-English advertising: The case of Brennan's Bread -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- 409-410