"Irishry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... century, English statesmen discover usquebaugh, and pass an act to extinguish it at once: "forasmuch as aqua vitae, a drink nothing profitable to be daily drunken and used, is now universally throughout this realm of Ireland made, and especially in the borders of the Irishry, and for the furniture of Irishmen, and thereby much corn, grain, and other things are consumed, spent, and wasted," ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... still. The attempt made by Chichester, under pressure from England, to introduce the English uniformity of religion ended in utter failure; for the Englishry of the Pale remained as Catholic as the native Irishry; and the sole result of the measure was to build up a new Irish people out of both on the common basis of religion. Much however had been done by the firm yet moderate government of the Deputy, and signs were already appearing of a disposition on the part of the people ...
— History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) - Puritan England, 1603-1660 • John Richard Green |
