10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIBERNICISM»
Discover the use of
Hibernicism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Hibernicism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Essays and correspondence, chiefly on Scriptural subjects, ...
You are pleased to mark the interpretation of " dead people living," &c. as " a
tolerably fair Hibernicism." If it be, sir, give me leave to say that the Hibernicism is
not mine, but Lucian's : and that it is Lucian's not onlv in this passage, but ...
John Walker, William Burton (of Bloomsbury), 1838
2
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
It is a collection of fairy stories, from the south of Ireland, told with a true
Hibernicism of tone and manner—an asiness, as the natives themselves would
say, which (as they would not say,) is quite refreshing. The stories, even as told
here, are ...
12 look or grease : " luck or grace ;" a common Hibernicism. 13 sense: " since."
14 Said to be fact. The Doctor bequeathed a handsome sum to Catherino II. On
the payment of the first instalment, she became so intoxicated (with whisky, not
joy ...
William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 1855
4
Remarks on the English Language, in the Manner of Those of ...
There is therefore no Hibernicism in saying that a future- persect tense
represents a thing as done at some future time. Why did not the Reviewer object
likewise to Mr. Ward's expression of a.future-pcrfeSi tense? For, if denoting an
action as ...
5
Tourism, Consumption and Representation: Narratives of Place ...
The American anthropologist John Messenger (1967, 1973, 1975) 'discovered'
this Hibernicism on Montserrat in the late 1960s and early 1970s during 7 weeks'
fieldwork and created the 'Black Irish' ethnic category for a loosely specified ...
Kevin Meethan, Alison Anderson, Steven Miles, 2006
6
Latin Scripts and Letters A.D. 400-900: Festschrift ...
This enthusiasm led to the inevitable reaction: the tendency to regard "
Hibernicism" as a philological "will-o-the-wisp", or worse, as another aberration of
"Celticizing". Now, I think, we can state with some confidence that the balance
has been ...
Ludwig Bieler, John Joseph O'Meara, Bernd Naumann, 1976
He sees Romanism rather than Hibernicism as the key to understanding the
history of the Catholic Church in Australia. Hibernicism has come and gone but
romanita has been 'a constant thread in the fabric' from Archbishop Polding to ...
8
Irish writings from the age of Swift
In a number of cases a passage in DHS contains only one remarkable word or
phrase, but the corresponding passage in IE contains two or more. In line 4 of
DHS Swift wrote He's often very unwell, underlining the hibernicism unwell; in IE
58-9 ...
9
Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review
WVould he think it an Hibernicism to say that there is no such thing as ' a round
square,' and to demonstrate this assertion by analysing the meaning of the words
'round' and ' square,' and pointing out that no idea can be framed answering to ...
10
The Gentleman's Magazine
Now it is evident that there is a blunder, an Hibernicism in these projects, namely,
that the evils would hare fallen more upon the numerous Catholics, than the few
Protestants. Foolish, however, as the plans were, an attempt may be made to ...
