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Irishry Hist. or arch.|ˈaɪərɪʃrɪ|
Also 5 -ery.
[f. Irish a. + -ry. Cf. Sc. ershry, s.v. Erse.]
1. collect. The native Irish, as opposed to English settlers in Ireland.
1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 317 (Camb. MS.) He had apon his party The eryschry [Edin. MS. Irschery; ed. 1616 Irishry]. c1450Holland Howlat 801 Thir ar his Irland kingis of the Irischerye. 1495Stat. Ireland (1765) I. 51 [To] stirre Irishery or Englishry to make warre against our soverain lord the Kings authority. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 44/1 As the manner and custome was among the Irishrie. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 72 They that refuse to be under lawes,..are tearmed the Irishry, and commonly the Wilde Irish. 1792Burke Let. to Sir H. Langrishe Wks. VI. 336 The spirit of the popery laws..as applied between Englishry and Irishry. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xviii. 353 It is not to be imagined that the entire Irishry partook in this desire of renouncing their ancient customs.
2. Irish character or nationality; an instance of this; an Irish trait.
1834H. O'Brien Round Towers Irel. 116 A country which piques itself on its Irishry. 1850E. Warburton R. Hastings II. 247 One thing they used to vex me about..and that was about my Irishry as they used to call it. 1872Lever Ld. Kilgobbin lxxi. (1875) 391 Awkwardnesses of manner—Walpole called them Irishries. |