Dictionary

Irishry en · NOUN

Etymology

From Irish + -ry.

Meanings

1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) The Celtic people of Ireland.
   • Some of the peasants escaped the massacre and were hiding in the thickets. As soon as you left they came out, and not being civilized, cultured Englishmen, but only poor, savage Irishry, they cut me down along with the others 1938, Robert Ervin Howard, chapter 1, in (Black Vulmea's Vengeance)::
   • the whole Irishry of rebels 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
   • A big bark nosed cautiously out of the mist, and was received with shouts and cries of, "Come along, darlin'," from the Irishry. 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
2. A distinctively Irish mannerism or expression; an Irishism.
   • Nor perhaps would it so much have mattered if it were Dorothy alone who was (to say an Irishry) drifting apart. 1906, Appleton’s Booklovers Magazine, volume 7, page 59:
   • “[…] every morning he used to sing delectable Irishries I’ve never heard repeated.” 1995, William J. Leonard, Where Thousands Fell, →ISBN, page 262:
   • And he is very much aware of the danger of overindulging in Irishries: in a letter to Barbara Brey he mentions a translation he himself has done […] and says of his own contribution: ‘a bit too free and Irish’. 2022, George Craig, “Solitude of the Translator”, in Jan Steyn, editor, Translation: Crafts, Contexts, Consequences, →ISBN, page 9:
3. (historical) In medieval Ireland, a territory inhabited by Irish people following their own customs.
   • For the period to 1300, Wales and Ireland may be described as frontiers of settlement, where ‘Englishries’ (areas of intensive English settlement) were interspersed with ‘Irishries’ and ‘Welshries’ (areas of native rule), so creating multiple, localised frontiers […] rather than consolidated blocs. 1999, Steven G. Ellis, “The English State and its Frontiers in the British Isles, 1300–1600”, in Daniel Power, Naomi Standen, editors, Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands, 700–1700, →ISBN, page 157:
   • By the sixteenth century there is unmistakable evidence of a division of the county into an Englishry and an Irishry […] 2000, Howard B. Clarke, “Decolonization and the dynamics of urban decline in Ireland, 1300–1550”, in T. R. Slater, editor, Towns in Decline, AD 100–1600, →ISBN:

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Coordinates

Englishry