(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.
Molly
Definition:
(n.) Same as Mollemoke.
(n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(2) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
(4) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
(5) In the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna, seven morphological endocrine cell-types could be distinguished with the electron microscope.
(6) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
(7) Heart-warming and heart-breaking, Tales takes us from 1976 to 2012, from shared landlines to Facebook, from Quaaludes to Molly (MDMA), from the fringe to the mainstream.
(8) Chromosomes of the Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, a unisexual species of hybrid origin, were investigated by C-banding, silver staining, and fluorescent staining with DAPI, quinacrine dihydrochloride, and chromomycin A3.
(9) Look after everyone for me, especially Adam and Molly.
(10) Molly Mattingly, head of learning disability projects at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities : "We have a range of support mechanisms at our disposal such as personal budgets, Circles of Support and personalised living arrangements.
(11) Mollie Whitworth North Walsham, Norfolk • What an impressive change the House of Lords debate on tax credit regulations made to the usual childish Punch and Judy politics of the other house.
(12) Earlier that day, my husband had driven to Indianapolis on business, so Molly and I sat in my living room with our dogs and our laptops, drinking tea and clacking away for hours.
(13) She's a bichon frise called Molly and when we took her to the vet he did his routine checks and said, "You've got yourself a girl… no, a boy… no, it's a girl… no, it's both".
(14) An extensive system of galanin-like immunoreactive (GAL-LI) fibers has been described in the brainstem and spinal cord of the male molly, which is absent in the female (Cornbrooks and Parsons, companion paper).
(15) The show was pipped in the lead acting awards however, with Jim Parsons winning for his portrayal of Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory and Melissa McCarthy winning for Molly in Mike & Molly.
(16) He was diagnosed as having chorea mollis, a rare variant of Sydenham's chorea.
(17) Gabrielle and Nick with their parents, Molly and Rodney.
(18) November 4, 2012 Molly Ball (@mollyesque) Starting to think the greatest thing Obama has done for this country is making Republicans sneer at golf.
(19) After a brief first marriage to a banker, she is married to a photographer, Adrian Clarke, by whom she has two daughters, Albertine, 10 and Jessye, nine, as well as a 17-year-old stepdaughter, Molly, from his first marriage.
(20) I’ll call you a cab, tell them to send someone who doesn’t mind dogs, and I’ll pay,” I offered – but even as I said it, I was thinking of other possible scenarios: Molly could leave her dog overnight with me and grab any old cab home.