Meanings
- uncountablethe act or process of Irishizing.
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.
2002, Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel, Synge and Irish Nationalism: The Precursor to Revolution, Praeger Pub Text, →ISBN2 more examples
“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.
2012, James R. Barrett, The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City, Penguin, →ISBN[…] 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
2016, Leah Perry, The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration: Gender, Race, and Media, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 196
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