(a.) Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.
(n. sing. & pl.) The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.
(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.
(n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(3) Levinson's film, to be titled Black Mass, will be based on the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob , by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
(4) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(5) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
(6) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(7) However, the 1916 Irish Easter Rising would be exempt.
(8) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(9) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
(10) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
(11) It is a deal that the Irish government, alongside the Garda Siochana and the RUC, believe could have yielded millions of dollars for the Provisionals.
(12) Noonan was also bold in his projection for Irish economic growth by 3.9% for 2015, which is higher than the original 2.7% growth predicted back in April this year.
(13) Yet when the final bill for compensating the thousands of victims of that abuse is counted, the cost will be shouldered, in the main, by the Irish taxpayer rather than the Catholic church.
(14) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(15) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
(16) Equally, Whittingdale pointed out that the Irish defamation act 2009 allows the courts to take account of whether a journalist has adhered to the Irish Press Council's code.
(17) At first they seem an unlikely pair – Holland, 64, grew up in a large Irish immigrant family in Lancashire; Chesang, 40 years her junior, was raised in a hut in Kenya .
(18) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(19) Allelic proportions in 5 Irish tick samples indicated that both spatial and temporal genetic differentiation exist.
(20) It hurts indigenous Irish businesses whose main trade links are with the UK.