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Stage Irish
Stage Irish is a stereotyped portrayal of Irish people once common in plays.〔(stage Irishman ), ''The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature'', Oxford University Press, p.534-5.〕 The term refers to an exaggerated or caricatured portrayal of supposed Irish characteristics in speech and behaviour. The stage Irishman was generally "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly) and chronically impecunious."〔
The early stage Irish persona arose in England in the context of the war between the Jacobites and Whig supporters of William of Orange at the end of the 17th century. Later, the stage Irish persona become more comic and less threatening. Irish writers also used the persona in a satirical way.
==Early examples==
The character of Captain Macmorris in Henry V has been claimed to be the first example of the type.〔 His line "What ish my nation?" was later appropriated by modern Irish writers, becoming a "recurrent epigraph".〔 However, Macmorris is a loyal and valiant supporter of Henry V, quite different from later, generally lower-class, stage Irishmen.
James Farewell's poem ''The Irish Hudibras'' (1689) was published in the wake of William's invasion of Ireland to suppress the Jacobite uprising. It is considered to be the principal origin of the stereotype. This takes the form of a parody of book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas descends into the underworld. In the poem, this is replaced by Fingal in County Dublin, in which Irish costume, behaviour, and speech-spatterns are parodied as if they were denizens of Hades. A companion piece, ''Hesperi-Neso-Grapica or A Description of the Western Isle'' by "W.M." was published in 1715. Pamphlets published under the title "Bog witticisms" also parodied the supposed illogicality and stupidity of the Irish.〔
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