Shoneenism
Shoneenism is a
]History and use
Since the 1800s, the words shoneen and shoneenism have been used by
There is not in this wide world a creature so mean,
As that mongrel of mongrels, the Irish shoneen!
Published in 1910, Patrick Weston Joyce's work English as We Speak it in Ireland, defines a "shoneen" as "a gentleman in a small way: a would-be gentleman who puts on superior airs", noting that the word is always "used contemptuously".[9]
James Joyce uses the term in several of his works, a practice which some Joycean scholars attribute to the frequent use of the term by Irish nationalist journalist D. P. Moran in The Leader newspaper.[10] In Writers and Politics: Essays and Criticism, a series of essays published by Conor Cruise O'Brien in 1965, O'Brien noted that advocates of a particular form of Irish nationalism, including D. P. Moran, would describe those who were deemed not to be an "Irish Islander" as either "a West Briton, if of Anglo-Irish descent, or a shoneen if of Gaelic ancestry".[11]
The Irish historian and academic, F. S. L. Lyons, defined a "shoneen" as a person "of native Irish stock who committed the unforgivable sin of aping English or West-Briton manners and attitudes".[12]
In 2017, the Irish
See also
References
- ISBN 9781984569547.
In the 18th century, Shoneenism was a term used in Ireland to describe an ostensible Irishman who was viewed as adhering to Anglophile snobbery
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- ^ Moran, D.P. (1905). "Chapter 4 "Politics, Nationality and Snobs"". The Philosophy of Irish Ireland.
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- ^ Artane (1882). Young Ireland: An Irish Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction. Nation and Weekly News. p. 472.
- ^ Joyce, P.W. (1910). English as we speak it in Ireland. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son. p. 321.
- JSTOR 26283656.
- ^ Cruise O'Brien, Conor (1965). Writers and Politics: Essays and Criticism. Chatto and Windus.
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- ^ Comyn, Francesca (14 November 2017). "Hogan: 'Legal shoneenism' has replaced 'golden era' of Constitutional law". businesspost.ie. Business Post. Retrieved 21 November 2022.