Ballyhooly

Coal-Shunter, "" Ballyhooly, "&c., and declares of the French soldier that" the short service forty-eight-day men don't have a very unkyperdoodlum time of it. "

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 Various

It is from Ballyhooly, the name of a village in Cork, once notorious for its brawls.

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921

Martin Ross's elder brother, Robert Martin (famous in his day as the writer and singer of _Ballyhooly_, and a score of other topical songs), left his work as a London journalist to help in fighting the first campaign which brought the word "boycott" into usage.

Irish Books and Irish People Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

He's a pale-haired, sharp-faced, undersized young gent too, and dressed sort of finicky in one of them Ballyhooly cape coats, an artist necktie, and a two-story soft hat with a striped scarf wound around it.

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

Yet he managed it all quite handily by riding about on his three famous camels: Bimbashi, Ballyhooly, and Beelzebub.

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

"Bogie" was evidently inclined to break out in a loud bark of presumable applause when the Irish member rose to his legs -- the member for Ballyhooly -- who had a question to ask the Chief

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880

And one night I went in with a fellow into one of their musical evenings, song and dance about she could get up on a truss of hay she could my Maureen Lay and there was a fellow with a Ballyhooly blue ribbon badge spiffing out of him in Irish and a lot of colleen bawns going about with temperance beverages and selling medals and oranges and lemonade and a few old dry buns, gob, flahoolagh entertainment, don't be talking.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Humours of Parliament, "of the imaginary Member for Ballyhooly; but it was the caricatures of Mr. Swift MacNeill, M.P., that brought matters to

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann