Volume with Irish poetry (5)

I believe the answer is:

verse

'poetry' is the definition.
('verse' can be a synonym of 'poetry')

'volume with irish' is the wordplay.
'volume' becomes 'v'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'irish' becomes 'erse' (I've seen this before).
'v'+'erse'='VERSE'

(Other definitions for verse that I've seen before include "Stanza; poetry" , "Poems" , "Piece of poetry" , "Metrical text" , "few lines of writing?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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