shoneen

So off they started about Irish sports and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all to that.

Ulysses 2003

And it was scarcely to be supposed the poet of the Roisín Dubh had in mind the coming of a shoneen talking-house, a gombeen legislature scrounged and cadged for by whiskey-swilling fixers in the imperial Parliament across the sea.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

And it was scarcely to be supposed the poet of the Roisín Dubh had in mind the coming of a shoneen talking-house, a gombeen legislature scrounged and cadged for by whiskey-swilling fixers in the imperial Parliament across the sea.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

But these shoneen men of Presentation are Englified to the core, if such could be said to have a core.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

But these shoneen men of Presentation are Englified to the core, if such could be said to have a core.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

And he a more miserable shoneen than his old crawthumping humbug of a father.

Duty, and other Irish Comedies Seumas O'Brien

It was not pleasant listening to, or seeing, "The Piper," to many groups of Irishmen, for it cut alike at the Parliamentary Nationalists, the Sein Feiner, and the shoneen.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

So off they started about Irish sports and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all to that.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Under the auspices of the Board of Erin "the shoneen" -- the most contemptible of all our

Ireland Since Parnell 1910

We are served up puppets representing the shoneen with a lisp set over against the patriot who says all the proper things suitable to the occasion.

Principles of Freedom 1899