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irish
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[ adjective ] of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people
Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Seventeen months later , on September 6 , 1611 , an Irish fishing_boat sighted the Discovery limping eastward outside Galway_Bay . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)He had a round , frank Irish face , creased in a jovial grin that stayed bleakly in_place even when he was pumping bullets into someone 's body . O_'_Banion was born in poverty , the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer , in the North_Side 's Little_Hell , close by the Sicilian quarter and Death_Corner . He was also at_the_same_time gaining practical experience as a safe_breaker and highwayman , and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene_Geary , later committed to Chester_Asylum as a homicidal maniac , but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor . (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)It happened at the St._Patrick 's_Day party , a big affair for a regiment which had gone_into battle for over three quarters of a century to the strains of an Irish march . Related terms |
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[ noun ] people of Ireland or of Irish extraction
Synonyms Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)In this connection , it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics , priests and laity , in England , while certainly seen as good for Catholicism , is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics , especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good . Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England : statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit ; a report that a Catholic nun had been requested to teach in a non-Catholic secondary_school during the sickness of one of its masters ; the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics , if the present system is still in_operation , will constitute almost one-third of the House_of_Lords in the next generation '' ; a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic_church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (food) made in Ireland chiefly from barley
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 2951
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 3647
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[ noun ] (linguistics) the Celtic language of Ireland
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