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From Irishbróg(“boot, shoe”), from Old Irishbróc, possibly related to or origin of Old Norsebrók(“breeches”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from Irishbarróg(“a hold (on the tongue)”).
A strong dialectalaccent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867