Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Irish idiom or custom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; any Irish peculiarity of speech or behavior; Hibernicism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A word, phrase, idiom, or expression chiefly said in
Ireland .
Etymologies
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Examples
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No man in the industrial machine is a free-will agent, except the large capitalist, and he isn't, if you'll pardon the Irishism. 2 You see, the masters are quite sure that they are right in what they are doing.
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If Zionism is racism, then so is Irishism, and Italianism, and Chineseism (with appartheid wall), and nearly every single nation on Earth.
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The English/Irishism that throws me is in reference to bands.
Royale With Cheese 2007
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Had a good time too because I'd wandered along on a night sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland and it was great craic (excuse the Irishism) to meet up with so many friends including H.E. Daniel Mulhall and his wife Greta, Datuk Shan, Raman and Lakshmi and make the aquaintance of a whole lot of new people.
Archive 2005-04-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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Had a good time too because I'd wandered along on a night sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland and it was great craic (excuse the Irishism) to meet up with so many friends including H.E. Daniel Mulhall and his wife Greta, Datuk Shan, Raman and Lakshmi and make the aquaintance of a whole lot of new people.
Ministry of Muffled Thinking Sharon Bakar 2005
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We have a lot of Irishmen on board which explains this Irishism.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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As Captain Minié has made no change in the rifle, except removing a tige which was only lately introduced, it is certainly an extraordinary Irishism to call his conical ball a Minié rifle; it was partially adopted in England as early as 1851.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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It is an unwritten law among the men that the only crime involved in stealing liquor is -- using an Irishism -- not to steal it.
S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant
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It comes down very glorious, -- because the strongest feeling in Irish hearts was Irishism, race-consciousness.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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You have only to compare _Beowulf, _ the epic the Saxons brought with them from the continent, with the poetry of Caedmon and Cynewulf, or with such poems as _The Phoenix, _ to see how Irishism tinged the minds of these Saxon pupils of Irish teachers with, as Stopford Brooke says, "a certain imaginative passion, a love of natural beauty, and a reckless wildness curiously mingled with an almost scientific devotion to metrical form."
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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