What's the difference between hibernian and irish?

Hibernian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish.
  • (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (2) The Knowledge inbox overflowed with various further Sportings and Football Clubs from around this wide footballing world of ours and a few examples that highlight the difficulty of classifying exactly what constitutes 'non-native' (should Hibernian, derived from the Roman name for Ireland, count for example, or 'Rovers, which is apparently derived from Norse?).
  • (2) Degree in business organisation at Heriot-Watt University Career Had trials for Hibernian FC 1984 Graduate trainee, Mars Pedigree Petfood 1986 Media sales, Daily Telegraph 1988 Media executive, Saatchi & Saatchi, made media director in 1990 1995 Joint chief executive, Saatchi & Saatchi 2000 Chief executive, Football Association 2003 Chief executive, Royal Mail He is on the boards of Camelot and Debenhams Family Married to Annette; two daughters
  • (3) Looking further back, Adam Purdue recalls that "Ken Barnes scored three penalties for Manchester City in the 6-2 home win over Everton in December 1957," while, according to the Evening Telegraph , a host of Scottish players have matched the feat: Bobby Collins, Celtic v Aberdeen (1950); Eddie Turnbull, Hibernian v Celtic (1951); Billy Price, Falkirk v Hamilton (1959); Gordon Wallace, Montrose v Hamilton (1963); Willie Johnston, Rangers v St Johnstone (1971); Donald Ford, Hearts v Morton (1973); Bobby McKean, St Mirren v Brechin (1974); Gerry Colgan, Queen's Park v Brechin (1976).
  • (4) The epic scale of Rangers’ celebrations as they progressed to a Scottish Cup final with Hibernian reflected how much this triumph meant.
  • (5) The Morocco international Merouane Zemmama has signed for Middlesbrough from Hibernian for an undisclosed fee.
  • (6) Out Fernando Torres (Chelsea, £50m), Nathan Eccleston (Charlton, loan), Ryan Babel (Hoffenheim, £6m) , Victor Palsson (Hibernian, undisc), Stephen Darby (Notts County, loan), David Amoo (MK Dons, loan), Paul Konchesky (Nottm Forest, loan).
  • (7) Fernando Torres Liverpool to Chelsea, £50m Andy Carroll Newcastle to Liverpool, £35m David Luiz Benfica to Chelsea, £26.5m Luis Suárez Ajax to Liverpool, £22.8m Tuncay Stoke to Wolfsburg, £4.5m Andy Reid Sunderland to Blackpool, undisc Maximilian Haas Bayern Munich II to Boro, undisc Merouane Zemmama Hibernian to Boro, undisc Rubén Rochina Barcelona to Blackburn, undisc Adriano Basso free agent to Wolves Daniel Sturridge Chelsea to Bolton, loan Paul Konchesky Liverpool to Nottm Forest, loan Stephen Ireland Aston Villa to Newcastle, loan James Beattie Rangers to Blackpool, loan Eidur Gudjohnsen Stoke to Fulham, loan Paulo da Silva Sunderland to Real Zaragoza, undisc El Hadji Diouf Blackburn to Rangers, loan Major Premier League January transfer window deals Arsenal In Ryo Miyaichi (unattached, undisc).
  • (8) He went on to live in Malta, where he played for the Hibernians team at 55, and to coach widely abroad, especially in South Africa, where he had first worked in 1954, and in Canada.
  • (9) WHEN THE OLD FIRM DIDN'T RULE THE SCOTTISH CUP "With Rangers losing against Hibernian and Celtic already eliminated, when was the last time Scottish football saw a Cup quarter-final without the Old Firm?"
  • (10) In the third patient with a Familial Hibernian Fever-like syndrome, an irregular fever pattern and no periodicity were found.
  • (11) At Wembley Celtic's popular "Big Frank" had been fourth choice anyway, an eleventh-hour international summons following injuries to Bill Brown (Tottenham Hotspur), Lawrie Leslie (Airdrieonians) and Ronnie Simpson (Hibernian).
  • (12) Turkey 5 (Galatasaray, Besiktas, Fenerbahce, Trabzonspor, Bursaspor) Portugal 5 (Porto, Benfica, Sporting, Belenenses, Boavista) Greece 6 (Olympiakos, Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, Aris Salonika, PAOK Salonika, Larissa) Iceland 9 (KR, Valur, IA, Fram, Vikingur, FH, Keflavik, IBV, KA)* Malta 10 (Sliema Wanderers, Floriana, Valletta, Hibernians, Hamrun Spartans, Birkirkara, Rabat Ajax, King's Own Malta Regiment, Marsaxlokk, St George's) Scotland 11 (Celtic, Hearts, Rangers, Hibs, Third Lanark, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Dundee United, Dundee, Dumbarton) * UBK added their name to the list later in the 2010 For thousands more questions and answers take a trip through the Knowledge archive Can you help?
  • (13) And, albeit moving slightly out of the classical genre, Finley Quaye's 'Maverick A Strike' album is apparently dedicated to his beloved Hibernian, while Austrian band Fanclub Erdberg made 'Anton Polster Du Bist Leiwand', a rough translation of which is 'Tony Polster: You Are A Legend'.
  • (14) 2.21pm GMT On Sky Sports News: Hayley McQueen has just read out an email from a viewer who wrote in to say that he took the day off work so that he could stand outside Hibernian's training ground to keep tabs on any comings or goings.
  • (15) Kuciak made a decent diving save from Anthony Stokes and Deila went for broke by removing the makeshift central defender Mikael Lustig and replacing him with the striker Leigh Griffiths, a habitual scorer in Edinburgh with Hibernian.
  • (16) While playing for Rangers in the 7-0 rout of Hibernian in December, 1995, Gazza was jogging back towards the halfway line at a goal-kick.
  • (17) One such occasion came in the late 80s, when Rowland participated in an attempt to take over Hibernian, one of Scotland's top football clubs.

Irish


Definition:

  • (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.

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