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Beatrice shook her head, and laughed again. "Is that what they call an Irishism?" she asked, with polite curiosity. "And an Irishism is a very good thing, too when employed with intention," retorted her friend. "Did he just chance, now, in a casual way, to mention the other woman's name, I wonder?" "Oh, you perverse and stiff-necked generation!" Beatrice laughed.
I intend you to accept your uncle's invitation. No heroics, please," as the girl was about to fling her arms round her mother's neck; "keep those for your father, Nora; I do not wish for them. I intend you to go and behave properly; pray remember that when you give way to pure Irishism, as I may express your most peculiar manners, you disgrace me, your mother.
The Irishism represents the fact that the author starts by exhibiting people in a dramatic position and then proceeds to show how they came to be there. There is always something of this method in a play. One cannot conveniently begin, like Sterne, with the birth of the hero and even a little before and work steadily forward.
The catastrophe at the fair had gained him two friends, entirely unlike one another Dermot, who thenceforward viewed him with unvarying hero-worship, and accepted Eustace as his appendage; and George Yolland, the very reverse of all Dermot's high-bred form of Irishism, and careless, easy self-indulgence.
And I know Joe couldn't have borne to see me in it." At the Irishism of which she burst out laughing, and laughed herself into the tears that had never come when they were expected of her. Mary caressed and soothed her, and told her she could well guess it was sadder to her now than even at first. "Well, it is," said Carey, looking up.
One could not pity him much, for at starting he had rejected three or four quiet-looking beasts as too slow, and chosen the animal he rode, or rather tried to ride, for, if the reader will pardon the Irishism, a great deal of Tom's riding was walking, and performed by leading his beast by its bridle.
Homes are stupid, homes are dreary, homes are insufferable. If one can be pardoned for the Irishism of such a saying, homes are their own worst "banes." If homes were what they should be, nothing under heaven could be invented which could be bane to them, which would do more than serve as useful foil to set off their better cheer, their pleasanter ways, their wholesomer joys.
As the Red House, to use an Irishism, was regarded as something of a white elephant, the agent was interested, apparently; and when on the following day the sum agreed upon arrived by post, he did not demur about delivering the keys to the prospective lessee, who desired to take certain measurements in regard to carpets and so forth."
It comes down very glorious, because the strongest feeling in Irish hearts was Irishism, race-consciousness. Whereas the Latin Church was fiercely against antiquity and all its monuments, the Celtic Church in Ireland was anxious above all things to preserve Celtic antiquity, having first brought it into line with the one true faith. The records had to be kept, and made to tally with the Bible.
It would, indeed, be a great stretch of politeness to extend this to our Irish neighbours: for no Irishism can ever deserve to be Anglicised, though so many Gallicisms have of late not only been naturalized in England, but even adopted by the most fashionable speakers and writers.
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