Irishry

the whole Irishry of rebels

A big bark nosed cautiously out of the mist, and was received with shouts and cries of, "Come along, darlin'," from the Irishry.

Some of the peasants escaped the massacre and were hiding in the thickets. As soon as you left they came out, and not being civilized, cultured Englishmen, but only poor, savage Irishry, they cut me down along with the others

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.”

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 and Irish’.

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 […]