(n.) A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’ll especially love the bit about the then financial editor, Paul Murphy, being unable to read English “because he’s a fucking Irishman”.
(2) BVI company was incorporated in July 2005, to buy a villa at the Cape Yamu development in Phuket, with pools and gyms, developed by Irishman Peter Hamilton.
(3) But the players have done very well in difficult circumstances, and they may need to continue to do that, the longer the process goes on.” Although the Northern Irishman’s players showed plenty of fight on the pitch against the Bees, there was a hint at tension in the camp when television cameras appeared to pick up substitute Gary Madine verbally insulting his manager after lashing a second-half shot way off target.
(4) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
(5) Professing himself to be "amazed" at the rise of England's current coach from the anonymity of being No2 at Derby County, another of McGrath's former clubs, the Irishman warns that, "You have to have so many gifts as an international manager.
(6) At the time of his visit the streets were festooned with loyalist Red Hand of Ulster flags and union flags but the southern Irishman felt no hostility towards him or his Spanish wife, Teresa.
(7) With allegations of cheap practice flying like left hooks around the Olympic boxing tournament, it took an Englishman and an Irishman to settle their legitimate sporting argument with admirable cordiality, Luke Campbell getting the better of John Joe Nevin to win Great Britain's 28th gold medal of the Games.
(8) Remember that beautiful young Irishman holding Bob Hoskins at gunpoint in the memorable abduction at the end of The Long Good Friday ?
(9) The Walworth Farce, which opens at the National Theatre next week, focuses on a tyrannical Irishman who has kept his two sons locked in a decrepit flat since the trio arrived in London almost two decades before.
(10) A mid an abundance of food and drink, flickering candles and a heady air of altered states,100 or so people in north London’s New Unity church watched John, a mop-haired Irishman in his late 20s, tell the story of how he learned to love through therapy, poetry and ayahuasca.
(11) Paul Doyle Attacking Wilfried Zaha accidentally caught Chris Brunt with an elbow while blocking a rare Albion shot here, leaving the Northern Irishman with a bloodied nose.
(12) The chief operating officer of the local organising committee is Simon Clegg, a former British Olympic Association and Ipswich Town chief executive, and the director of sport is Pierce O’Callaghan, an Irishman with a background in athletics.
(13) Liverpool are on the brink of appointing Brendan Rodgers as their new manager after Swansea City's chairman, Huw Jenkins, accepted he could not refuse the 39-year-old Northern Irishman the opportunity of a move to Anfield.
(14) At least it trumps its predecessor thanks to the inclusion of the word ‘girt’, which undercuts all the guff about “golden soil” and being “young and free” by virtue of sounding like an Irishman saying ‘girth’.
(15) Photograph: Henry McDonald for the Guardian Married to an Irishman with two children in a prosperous part of south County Dublin, Heming said what while she would always support the England football and rugby teams, it was time for her to take up Irish citizenship.
(16) He was insouciant, dapper, elegant, somehow intensely English – though O'Toole himself was an Irishman and proud of it – and also outrageously sexy.
(17) The five‑times world champion Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand and the Czech Republic's Ondrej Synek will take some beating but the experienced Northern Irishman is a determined character.
(18) Andreas Weimann anticipated Marc Wilson's poor touch to dispossess the Irishman who, in his attempts to make amends, upended the Austrian.
(19) When Scotsman Harry Stanley was killed by police in the same year after leaving a London pub carrying a table leg and being mistaken for an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun he was demonised as a feckless drunk.
(20) The Irishman took a touch before whacking the ball into the net off the post from a difficult angle, 18 yards out.
Orangeman
Definition:
(n.) One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two former army intelligence officers have claimed their reports of abuse taking place at the home, which was controlled by a prominent Orangeman and state agent, were ignored by the authorities.
(2) Just prior to his death, McKeague had made it clear he was about to go public about a scandal at Kincora boys' home involving its paedophile housemaster and prominent Orangeman William McGrath, leading loyalists and members of British intelligence.
(3) The inquiry will examine claims of sexual and physical abuse including at the Kincora boys' home in east Belfast, where a senior Orangeman and a number of loyalist extremists are alleged to have raped children.
(4) The historical institutional abuse inquiry will examine claims of sexual and physical abuse including at the Kincora boys' home in east Belfast, at which a senior Orangeman and a number of loyalist extremists raped children.
(5) The historical institutional abuse inquiry will examine claims of sexual and physical abuse, including the Kincora boys home in east Belfast, in which a senior Orangeman and a number of loyalist extremists raped children.
(6) Two former army intelligence officers, Colin Wallace and Brian Gemmel, have claimed they reported abuse at the east Belfast home, which was controlled by a prominent Orangeman and state agent, but were ignored by the authorities.
(7) They allege that instead of moving against paedophiles running the home, the security forces blackmailed the Orangeman William McGrath and others to spy on other hardline Ulster loyalists from the 1970s onwards.
(8) Among the state-run institutions under examination was the former boys' home at Kincora in east Belfast where senior staff including a prominent Orangeman ran a regime of sexual abuse and rape during the 1960s and 70s.