Hiberno-English, Ulster Scots and Belfast Banter

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(Dr Frank Sewell, Poet, Translator, Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature and Creative Writing at Ulster University)

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(Professor David Johnston, Literary Translator, Professor of Translation at Queen's University, Belfast)

Ciaran Carson viewed translation as integral to his?oeuvre.?He?imbues his version?of Dante's acclaimed?Inferno?with modern socio-political concerns,?placing?it?in a partly Irish context, beyond any border. Like Dante, he shows his regard for vernacular speech and provides dizzying perspectives switching from courtly love language to quotidian banter. ??

In his translation of Rimbaud, Carson completely dismantles the nineteenth-century texts before newly assembling them in translation. He employs dictionaries, musical rhythms and modern Hiberno-English slang to create Alexandrine sonnets and rhyming couplets forging Rimbaud's?fin de siecle?French into a new cultural rendering.

Carson's quick-witted and emotionally charged translations call for an original analytical framework. This book contributes to Translation Studies by presenting an original Hybrid Gricean Theory melding Gricean and neo-Gricean linguistic theories with pertinent translation theories to elucidate Carson's techniques.