Irishization

Irishization

English

Etymology

Irish +‎ -ization

Noun

Irishization (uncountable)

1. the act or process of Irishizing.
   • 2002, Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel, Synge and Irish Nationalism: The Precursor to Revolution, Praeger Pub Text (ISBN 9780313324246)

     If In the Shadow of the Glen is an Irishization of Ibsen's play, then a major part of the alteration is its revolutionary nature that lies more in the area of culture than gender.

   • 2012, James R. Barrett, The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City, Penguin (ISBN 9781101560594)

     “Every one of us Poles understands that in the Irish parochial schools our children are being systematically deprived of their Polish soul,” a religious paper observed, and that finally the children would “yield to the process of Irishization.

   • 2016, Leah Perry, The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration: Gender, Race, and Media, NYU Press (ISBN 9781479828777), page 196:

     […] what might be called the Irishization of American popular culture. This Irishization, roughly contemporary with the Latin Explosion and also short-lived, included the new mainstream success of the openly political Irish rock band U2