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irishry
noun 2
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3ADJ.
drifting
VERB + IRISHRY
say
ADV.
apart
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noun
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.
“[…] every morning he used to sing delectable Irishries I’ve never heard repeated.”
2
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.
By the sixteenth century there is unmistakable evidence of a division of the county into an Englishry and an Irishry […]
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Nor perhaps would it so much have mattered if it were Dorothy alone who was (to say an Irishry) drifting apart.
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“[…] every morning he used to sing delectable Irishries I’ve never heard repeated.”
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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 a
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