weep Irish | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)To cryinsincerelyor in anexaggeratedmanner.1843, Nathanael Burton,History of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, near Dublin:I have here omitted the pathetic description of Billy Flannagan, touching the doleful parting of Cathleen with her people, "whowept Irish," hullaghlued, ahahoned, with all the moving circumstances of her farewell, and the seeing her home.1905, Bede Camm,Lives of the English Martyrs (Vol. 2):All this while, above in chambers looking out, we saw the long-bearded ministers of Geneva who laughed at us; but if we might have had our wills we would have made them to havewept Irish.2007, Mary Kelly Black,Lovely, Lonely Life: a Woman's Village Journal (Vol. 1):She never confesed to me this seed of my disorder, but "wept Irish" to others, how I had shed tears at birth before my first sound.

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