language used in Ireland; it is (28)..........called
Anglo-Irish or Irish English. The basis for the type of English spoken in Ireland is said to be a mixture of the language of Shakespeare and the Irish of the Gaelic earls, as modern Irish-English does bear the marks of two major historical events. First, we have the various types of English and Scots that (29)..........to Ireland during the English and Scottish colonization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Secondly, there is an early hybrid jargon (30)..........arose as a result of the contact between the Irish and English languages. The linguistic interference of the Irish language on the English spoken in Ireland is most clearly seen in those areas where Irish is still spoken as a mother tongue or where it (31)..........until recently. However, this merging is minimal (but still absolute in evidence) in Dublin, where cultural influences (news-media, music, television) from the US and the UK have been more readily assimilated, (32)..........exposure, in the modern age. 28.