Meaning of shoneen | Babel Free

Definitions

An Irish person considered excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of English society.

Ireland, derogatory, ethnic, slur

Examples

“Good Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe and trout.”

“So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak their own language”

CEFR level