Irishmann.

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1055 Hig gegaderadan ða mycle fyrde mid ðam yriscan mannan & mid Walkynne.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9012 Þa iseȝen Irisce men [c1300 Otho Yrisse men], þat Brutten wes an eornest.

c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 1004 He dude writes sende In to yrlonde After kniȝtes liȝte, Irisse men [v.r. Hyrische men] to fiȝte.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 347 Irische men reccheþ nouȝt of castelles.

c1450 Siege Calais (Rome) in PMLA (1952) 67 893 An Irissh man, On his hoby that swiftly ran.

1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 32 They sailled in to Irlande and toke to theyr wyues Irisshmens doughtres.

a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 143 (MED) The Irysh-men londes..wer take fro ham.

a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) iii. 131 I am an Iryshe man, in Irland I was borne.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 24, in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) I know not whether the words bee English or Irish..the Irishmen can make no derivation of them.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 272 The Lord Deputy..in his journall towards Cilkenny Knighted three Irish men.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 10 Aug. (1970) I. 218 A fine foot-race..between an Irishman and Crow that was once my Lord Claypooles footman.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland xiii, in Tracts (1769) 375 An Englishman was not punishable for killing an Irishman.

1735 J. Swift Let. to Middleton in Wks. IV. 193 The Arrival of an Irish-man to a Country Town.

1767 G. A. Stevens French Flogged iv. 10 They told me..that all the women there would run after an Irishman.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. iv. iii. 99 The Irishman..utterly refused to be after fighting in any such manner.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 27 Let no true Irishman, who believes and sees all this, despair by reason of it.

1848 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 101 534 Driven forth by poverty, Irishmen emigrate in great numbers.

1883 Harper's Mag. July 312/2 A temperate exposition of the wrongs of Ireland and Irishmen under the centuries of English misgovernment.

1909 Times 21 Jan. 6/6 What difference did it make whether a man got a ‘shoneen’ education in Belfast or in Oxford so long as he was not educated an Irishman.

1960 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor in Clover ix. 76 We were interrupted by the surgeon himself, a big, red-faced, jolly Irishman.

1963 W. V. Shannon Amer. Irish xvii. 353 Joe Kennedy, first Irishman and first Catholic to become American ambassador to Great Britain.

2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 41 The foreman's an Irishman, your man says, so be sure to let him know yiz are from Ireland and yiz'll get fixed up no bother.

1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 14 Irichman that singis with the las and beggis throu the toune.

c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 183 The wyld..natour of the Irichemen duelling in the Hielandis and Ilis of Scotteland.

1639 in F. Roberts & I. M. M. MacPhail Dumbarton Common Goods Accts. (1972) 108 Ane Irische man wha fenzeit himselff to be dumb.

a1742 N. Salmon Families Sc. Nobility (1759) 51 The first of this name and family is said to be one Kenneth, an Irishman, or a Scotch highlander.

1780 W. Shaw Galic & Eng. Dict. I Gaoidhal, an Irishman, Highlander of Scotland.

1645 J. Winthrop Jrnl. (1996) 573 A Shippe of ours..was set vpon..by an Irishe man of warre..& the Irishe man Grapled with our Shippe & borded her, & fought with her, side by side.

1648 Earl of Warwick Let. from Navy 3 A man was presently sent to Oastend, who told us, that there were Irish-men victualing there.

1706 Boston News-let. 26 Aug. 1/2 A Vessel from Ireland..bound for this place, was Attacked by a Sloop from Matinico.., who boarded him, but the Captain of the Irish man, and the rest of his men made a stout resistance.

1820 J. Gråberg Graglia's New Pocket Dict. Ital. & Eng. Langs. at Man An Irish man, bastimento irlandese.

2002 B. J. Mountford Sea-born Women 57 It was an Irishman carrying the poorest sort of passengers.

1860 S. Butler in H. F. Jones Samuel Butler (1919) I. 80 There is a large quantity of Irishman (the name given to a thorny shrub which, in the back country, attains to a considerable size)... A glorious lurid flare marks the ignition of an Irishman.

1891 G. E. Mannering With Axe & Rope in N.Z. Alps iv. 84 We lost no time in pressing on to a patch of Irishman scrub a mile or so below the terminal face of the glacier.

1953 B. Stronach Musterer on Molesworth 38 Our camp was in a small bay surrounded by..very big matagouris or Irishman, some more than a foot through.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 168 The shrub matogowrie, called Irishman in early writings, is especially common in the South Island where Maori influence is least strong and anglicization is most likely.

1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. x. 428 It is almost an Irishman's hurricane.

1827 J. F. Cooper Red Rover III. v. 107 There was an Irishman's hurricane, right up and down, for a day.

1873 ‘Vanderdecken’ Yachts & Yachting xxxi. 264 She is like a hurrah's nest, or a billyboy caught in an Irishman's hurricane!

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 121 Irishman's hurricane, a slight drizzle in a calm.

1976 N.Y. Times 23 June 29/1 ‘It's pretty close to an Irishmans hurricane,’ said Red Shannon, the sailmaster.

1883 Atchison (Kansas) Globe 3 Nov. Mr. Anderson gets an Irishman's promotion.

1902 C. J. C. Hyne Mr. Horrocks, Purser ii. 27 I've a sort of memory that you got Irishman's promotion for a bit of a mistake just recently.

1990 C. D. Storrar Four Faces of Fourcade iii. 21 Fourcade was given an Irishman's promotion when his designation was changed to ‘Officer-in-charge of the George and Western Knysna Forests’.

1869 Educ. Reporter 15 Aug. 13/2 To talk of improving the position of town schoolmasters by giving them a uniform salary of £80 reminds one strongly of the ‘Irishman's rise.’

1886 Coffee Public-house News May 90/2 The last place with only one assistant besides myself, and then I had the Irishman's rise from thirty shillings to twenty shillings.

1915 Truth 25 Aug. 295/2 The utmost the surveyor might expect from most corporations would be an Irishman's rise.

1926 Times 31 May 6/2 Next came Mr. Collins, who had given himself an Irishman's rise in the batting list, perhaps to change his luck.

2004 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 25 Sept. (Money section) Under-16s then were not required to pay tax as they do today. I received an ‘Irishman's rise’ on turning 16.