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Irishry

Irishry noun: the Celtic people of Ireland.

Noun (1)

Irishry pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) The Celtic people of Ireland.
    • the whole Irishry of rebels1649, 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

Noun (2)

Irishry (plural Irishries)

  1. 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
  2. (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...
    • 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

Forms of Irishry

pluralIrishries

Origin of Irishry

From Irish + -ry.

Questions about Irishry

What does Irishry mean?
Irishry means the Celtic people of Ireland.
What part of speech is Irishry?
Irishry is a noun.
What is the plural of Irishry?
The plural of Irishry is Irishries.

Words near Irishry in the dictionary

  1. Irishman's hurricane
  2. Irishmen
  3. Irishness
  4. Irishphobia
  5. Irishries
  6. Irishry
  7. Irishtown
  8. Irishtown-Summerside
  9. Irishwoman
  10. Irishwomen
  11. Irishy

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