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Irish definition

Irish (ī′ris̸h)

adjective

of Ireland or its people, language, or culture

Etymology: ME < OE Īrisc < Īras, the Irish < OIr Eriu, Ireland > Eire

noun

  1. the Celtic language spoken in Ireland
  2. the English dialect spoken in Ireland
  3. Informal temper: chiefly in get someone's Irish up, to arouse someone's temper
Irish Idioms

the Irish

the people of Ireland

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Irish Synonyms

Irish

modif.

Celtic, Hibernian, Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Goidelic, Old Irish, Middle Irish, from the old sod*.


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Irish Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • northern: Of current events northern irish was is reserved for of some debate.
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Irish quotes

   Earth receive an honoured guest; WilliamYeats is laid to rest: Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter, Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.

-Barker, George Granville

   My name is Behan, Brendan Behan, after Saint Brendan, who got into one of our little Irish boats called a curragh one day in the sixth century and sailed across the Atlantic and found America, and when he'd found it, like a sensiblemanheturned around and sailed back and left it where it fuckin' well was.

-Behan, Brendan Francis

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