In this he has been so entirely successful that for many English readers he has established a new language which may not improperly be called Hybernico-Thackerayan.

If comedy is to be got from peculiarities of dialect, as no doubt it is, one form will do as well as another, so long as those who read it know no better.

So it has been with Thackeray's Irish, for in truth he was not familiar with the modes of pronunciation which make up Irish brogue.

Therefore, though he is always droll, he is not true to nature.

Many an Irishman coming to London, not unnaturally tries to imitate the talk of Londoners.