Editing Hiberno-English (section)

====Recent past construction====
Irish indicates recency of an action by adding "after" to the present continuous (a verb ending in "-ing"), a construction known as the "hot news perfect" or "after perfect".<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1jpNgJhjJF4C&q=%22hot+news+perfect&pg=PA129 |title=A semantic and pragmatic examination ... |via=Google Books |access-date=26 November 2010 |isbn=9783878083726 |date=1986 |last1=Fenn |first1=Peter |publisher=Gunter Narr Verlag |archive-date=20 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211020193246/https://books.google.com/books?id=1jpNgJhjJF4C&q=%22hot+news+perfect&pg=PA129 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aPPexF5hyIkC&q=%22after+perfect%22+irish&pg=PA253 |title=Dialects Across Borders |series="Current Issues in Linguistic Theory" series |via=Google Books |access-date=26 November 2010 |isbn=9789027247872 |date=2005 |editor1-last=Filppula |editor1-first=Markku |editor2-last=Klemola |editor2-first=Juhani |editor3-last=Palander |editor3-first=Marjatta |editor4-last=Penttilä |editor4-first=Esa |publisher=John Benjamins}}</ref> The idiom for "I had done X when I did Y" is "I was after doing X when I did Y", modelled on the Irish usage of the compound [[preposition]]s {{lang|ga|i ndiaidh}}, {{lang|ga|tar éis}}, and {{lang|ga|in éis}}: {{lang|ga|bhí mé tar éis}}&thinsp;/&thinsp;{{lang|ga|i ndiaidh}}&thinsp;/&thinsp;{{lang|ga|in éis X a dhéanamh, nuair a rinne mé Y}}.
* "Why did you hit him?" – "He was after giving me cheek." (he had [just beforehand] been cheeky to me).
A similar construction is seen where exclamation is used in describing a recent event:
* "I'm after hitting him with the car!" {{lang|ga|Táim tar éis é a bhualadh leis an gcarr!}}
* "She's after losing five stone in five weeks!" {{lang|ga|Tá sí tar éis cúig chloch a chailleadh i gcúig seachtaine!}}

When describing less astonishing or significant events, a structure resembling the [[German grammar|German perfect]] can be seen:
* "I have the car fixed." {{lang|ga|Tá an carr deisithe agam.}}
* "I have my breakfast eaten." {{lang|ga|Tá mo bhricfeasta ite agam.}}

This correlates with an analysis of "H1 Irish" proposed by Adger & Mitrovic,<ref>Adger (2004)</ref> in a deliberate parallel to the status of German as a [[V2 word order|V2 language]].

Recent past construction has been directly adopted into [[Newfoundland English]], where it is common in both formal and casual [[register (sociolinguistics)|register]]. In rural areas of the [[Avalon peninsula]], where [[Newfoundland Irish]] was spoken until the early 20th century, it is the grammatical standard for describing whether or not an action has occurred.<ref name="heritage language">[http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/language.html Language: Irish Gaelic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417124822/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/language.html |date=17 April 2015}}, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage website.</ref>