bog-Irish

Gentleman-ranker, thinks I, bog-Irish gentry, village school, seen inside Dublin Castle, no doubt, but no rhino for a commission.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Gentleman-ranker, thinks I, bog-Irish gentry, village school, seen inside Dublin Castle, no doubt, but no rhino for a commission.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Gentleman-ranker, thinks I, bog-Irish gentry, village school, seen inside Dublin Castle, no doubt, but no rhino for a commission.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

But with the large detective sergeant who had accompanied Weston — a man with a marvellously brutal bog-Irish face which looked as if it had been carved out of soft stone and then unwisely exposed to the elements for a century or two — it must have been claustrophobic for those ten long minutes.

War Game Price, Anthony 1976

When it was only the bog-Irish brutalizing each other, Ontario didn't much trouble to defend the rule of law and the authority of the state in Biddulph township.

"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader 2010

Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer who wrote: "Complacent Cockneys get it in the neck just as much as amorous Frenchmen, bog-Irish peasants, Jewish anarchists and today's radicalised young Muslims who pay court to hate-filled preachers."

unknown title 2009

But I’m not a cashiered ex-Indian Army drunk either, and Jake’s got a real, live, upwardly mobile mother instead of a dead aristocrat turned bog-Irish housemaid.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

Carry On films and EastEnders, Bean tells the story of successive waves of immigration into the East End of London … In a neat framing device the play is presented as if it were a performance by the inmates of a present-day immigration centre as they wait to learn whether or not they can stay in Britain … But complacent Cockneys get it in the neck just as much as amorous Frenchmen, bog-Irish peasants, Jewish anarchists and today's radicalised young Muslims who pay court to hate-filled preachers.

unknown title 2009