Converse of object

• appreciate: She also wears a crop top bearing the Beatles logo, proving her stylist, at least, appreciates irony.

• realize: Then, with plenty of time on my hands, I began to realize the irony of that whole experience.

• detect: I failed to detect any irony in his tone.

• employ: The story is told with wry wit and humor, employing sharp irony and masterful dialog.

• understand: I've never been able to fully understand irony.

• miss: Ironic, but an irony missed on York who never seemed to notice how rioting eventually proved to be her nemesis.

Converse of subject

• strike: Finally, I am struck by one irony behind all this.

Adjective modifier

• cruel: For in a cruel irony, the bombing raids had saved the day.

• bitter: Dunn finds a rather bitter irony of circumstance in the fact that the anniversary of Lesley's death has coincided with Mother's Day.

• tragic: The tragic irony was lost on nobody involved with the production.

• supreme: Indeed, it seems like the supreme irony that militant atheism has managed to acquire the mentality of a religion.

• comforting: Comforting irony in book sales speaking able to report properties with some.

Noun used with modifier

• post-modern: Is it supposed to be post-modern irony or something?

• postmodern: Love the postmodern irony of the Tesco's tissues.

Preposition: in

• situation: There's so much irony in the situation that for once I'll refrain from commenting.

Preposition: of

• situation: The irony of the situation in which we find ourselves today should be evident for all to see.

• history: This is a great irony of history which forms the central part of his story.

• story: Well, smell the irony of this story, then: London bus turned into clinic for disabled.

• war: In an all too frequent irony of war, they were shelled by their own artillery.