Corkonian

comparative more Corkonian · superlative most Corkonian

1. IrelandOf, relating to, or characteristic of Cork.

   Mary is universally loved. When I put this to her, her reply is modest, and typically Corkonian: “Ah, will ye stop.”

   2012 July 4, Valerie O’Sullivan, “From Reenaree to Buramino … with lots of love from Mary T [Murphy]”, in The Kerryman, North & West Kerry edition, Tralee, County Kerry, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 5

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   But there is nothing malevolent in the Corkonian mode of levying toll upon old residents and new comers; […] priests with frowning faces, and queer-looking little boys with funny ones, and a miscellaneous lot of noisy patriots always going to shout and hear others shout at “the meeting,” are constant and prominent features in Corkonian life.

   1852 July, “The Corkonians, Past and Present”, in The Dublin University Magazine, […], volume XL, number CCXXXV, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr, →OCLC, page 120, columns 1–2

   Then every one was complaining about the high price of labor, and it was supposed that a Chinese “nurseman,” at two dollars and a half a month, would be a decided improvement over a French bonne with watery eyes and a Corkonian accent, and that a cook who could make at least tolerable dishes at four dollars a month would be better than one who charged seventy-five dollars for the privilege of spoiling provisions.

   1879 April, David D. Porter, “The Chinese in America—Present and Future, Etc.”, in The United Service. A Quarterly Review of Military and Naval Affairs., volume I, number II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lewis R[andolph] Hamersly & Co., →OCLC, page 311

   I have no hesitation in saying that I would put first in this last generation among the Irishmen who remained in Ireland, and rendered great service to the National cause, two men, each typically Corkonian to the fingertips, with the gifts and qualities and virtues that mark them out among their fellows.

   1934 May 31, Daniel F[lorence] Cohalan, quotee, “Two Sons of ‘Rebel Cork’: [Tim] Healy and [Michael] Collins; Judge Cohalan’s Fine Tribute”, in Irish Independent […], volume 43, number 129, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 7

plural Corkonians

1. IrelandA native or inhabitant of Cork.

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   Vivacious and versatile, beyond the average even of Irishmen, the Corkonians mingle raillery with their hospitality, and cut up cattle and human nature with a trenchant ease and constant energy, as if they had taken a government contract to victual the State with beef and satire, fresh jokes and pickled pork at the same time.

   1852 July, “The Corkonians, Past and Present”, in The Dublin University Magazine, […], volume XL, number CCXXXV, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr, →OCLC, pages 119–120

   To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale, that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.

   1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105

   Other men there were who did splendid work. But in each generation, in the last analysis, there is one who bears the palm; and Healy and Collins, each in his day and time, did work that will be remembered through many lives that are yet to come. Well may you, Corkonians, and your children, glory in the fellowship of such men!

   1934 May 31, Daniel F[lorence] Cohalan, quotee, “Two Sons of ‘Rebel Cork’: [Tim] Healy and [Michael] Collins; Judge Cohalan’s Fine Tribute”, in Irish Independent […], volume 43, number 129, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 7