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Welcome to the Limerick Corpus of Irish-English interactive website. 

The Limerick Corpus of Irish English (L-CIE) has been developed by the University of Limerick in conjunction with Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. This one-million word spoken corpus of Irish English discourse includes conversations recorded in a wide variety of mostly informal settings throughout Ireland. The corpus is a collection of naturally occurring spoken data from everyday Irish contexts. There are currently 375 transcripts (totaling over 1,000,000 words) available at this site.  

Currently, it includes conversations recorded across a wide variety of predominantly informal settings throughout Ireland (excluding Northern Ireland). While the corpus consists mainly of casual conversation, there are also over 200,000  words of professional, transactional and pedagogic Irish English included which, along with the casual conversation data, were carefully collected with reference to a range of different speech genres. 

This project has been funded by the HEA Targeted Initiatives  Scheme, Mary Immaculate and the University of Limerick.