shoneen

Borrowed from Irish Seoinín, from Seon (“John”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃəʊniːn/

shoneen (plural shoneens)

1. (Ireland, derogatory) One who prefers English attitudes, customs or lifestyle to Irish ones.
   • 1889, W B Yeats, The Ballad of Father O'Hart

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

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

     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