Nine papers presented at an Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) seminar on research in progress in applied linguistics in Ireland are included in this volume. Papers and authors are as follows: "Nuclear Prominence in Hiberno English: A Preliminary Investigation" (Rosemary O'Halpin); "The Translatability of Nil Equivalence Terms" (Ignacio Hernandez Lasa); "Deixis and Translation" (Bill Richardson); "Exploration, Challenge, and Change in the Teaching of Irish at Post-Primary Level" (Muiris O Laoire); "The Year Abroad--A Linguistic Challenge" (Riana Walsh); "Syntactic Typology and 'Free Word Order' in Cushitic" (John Ibrahim Saeed); "L2 Motivation as a Qualitative Construct" (Ema Ushioda); "The Introduction of Irish as a Target Language to the Eurotra Machine Translation System" (Dorothy Kenny); and "Developing Strategies and Attitudes" (Rosa Ma Lopez Boullon). (JL)