Irishism

The Irishism came out quite spontaneously, as Barney ran a hand through his short dark curls.

It'll be like being shut in a stable with a thrashing elephant, only incomparably worse - to use an Irishism.

No man in the industrial machine is a free-will agent, except the large capitalist, and he isn't, if you'll pardon the Irishism.

Buddhism knows no 'authority', and the Buddha's recorded words, if the Irishism be excused, are the authority for this lack of it.

(John Algeo himself uses Irishism , not Iricism .)

Prof. Algeo guesses that the expression "may have been an Irishism that spread via the British army in India."

Catts resigned from the Labor Party in 1922, blaming the loss of the 1922 state election on Irishism, Bolshevism and Tammanyism within the party.

But it was either a 'sane paranoia (if you will pardon the Irishism), or I was suffering from delusions so monumental that I should be locked up and treated.

So we have the ludicrous situation that Christ was born five years before Christ was born - an Irishism that can be resolved only by noting that one clause refers to fact and the other clause refers to a false-to-fact calendar.

As a rule, this artificiality is accepted as Irishism, or Yeats is even credited with simplicity because he uses short words, but in fact one seldom comes on six consecutive lines of his verse in which there is not an archaism or an affected turn of speech.