Hiberno-Englishn.adj.

1805 Ann. Rev. & Hist. of Lit. 1804 3 v. 409/2 A statute of Henry VIII. informs us what was the dress of the Irish in 1599 and which the Hiberno-English had adopted.

1841 C. Otway Sketches in Erris & Tyrawly ii. 21 Without any one to inform me I could have recognised this as an ancient pace—for so the Hiberno-English called their ways.

1855 tr. T. Burke in Gentleman's Mag. July 46/1 This most noble family, in Latin de Rupe, in French de la Roche, but now among the English and Hiberno-English everywhere Roche.

1994 E. L. Rambo Colonial Ireland in Medieval Eng. Lit. 21 The statutes seem to have been prompted by fears that the Hiberno-English were ‘going native’.

1860 Brownson's Q. Rev. Apr. 184 It has battled nobly against the Oscuranti, or old fogies, as we say in Hiberno-English.

1908 A. P. Graves Irish Poems I. Pref. p. vi I have had not a few heart searchings as to the spelling of my poems in Hiberno-English.

1955 J. Carney Stud. Irish Lit. & Hist. v. 171 I make no apology for occasional use of Hiberno-English here and elsewhere.

1985 Times 2 Dec. 14/8 The study of Hiberno-English, a field he made virtually his own.

2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 2 Feb. (News Features section) 5 The publishers will have to include someone who is fluent in Hiberno-English, as words such as eejit or press (as in cupboard) might not be familiar to many British people.

1840 A. Smith Irish Coins of Edward IV 10 The second section, or Hiberno-English type, comprises those coins which bear devices peculiar to the Irish mint on the obverse, and the motto of the English mint..on the reverse.

1927 Washington Post 6 Dec. 6/3 The financial and economic progress of the Irish Free State, since the Hiberno-English treaty of December 6, 1921.

1966 P. L. Henry Early Eng. & Celtic Lyric i. 39 Hiberno-English relations, established firmly in the seventh century, received a further impetus from the Irish anchorite movement of the eighth.

2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 4 Oct. (Sport section) 6 Nor, for once, has the draw set things up for an Hiberno-English climax on the last weekend.

1864 Brit. Amer. Mag. 2 198 With the exception of a few state papers, of Hiberno-English Literature, there was none before the seventeenth century.

1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland II. xxii. 216 The most general term for a shoe was bróc, brócc, or bróg..: it is still the word in common use, and it is correctly perpetuated in sound by the well-known Hiberno-English word brogue.

1920 Washington Post 16 Apr. 6/2 The best beloved of Hiberno-English poets.

1990 Lang. in Society 19 592 Some of her most interesting examples involve linguist speakers of Standard English interacting with speakers of Hiberno-English variants.

2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. xi. 281 ‘She's after coping..’, incidentally, is pure Hiberno-English syntax used to indicate something that has just happened.