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Irish

Irish is the native language of Ireland, now only spoken by a minority of Ireland's people, it is part of the Gaelic language family, which is part of the broader Celtic language family. English was the language used at school in Dublin, even for those who spoke only Irish.

Irish

If something or someone is Irish, it is from or related to Ireland. Now the place is an Irish pub called O'Neill's. Both Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics made their way across the Atlantic to Quebec. The newspapers have done a poor job reporting on Ireland and Irish issues in general. Every Tuesday night we have traditional Irish music. The Irish are the people of Ireland. The Welsh were fighting the English and the Scots were fighting the English and of course the Irish were fighting the English.

Irish

of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people people of Ireland or of Irish extraction the Celtic language of Ireland whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley

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Simple sentences

Are you learning Irish on your own?
It's an old Irish tradition.
The girl is Irish.
I'm Irish, but I don't speak Irish.
If you've never had a pint of Guinness in a real Irish pub, I highly recommend it.
For some strange reason I talk to me dogs with an Irish accent.
Jig, reel and hornpipe are the most popular irish dances.
The Irish jig and the French gigue differ in speed, microrhythmics, and German gender.
Uillean Pipes - translated they'd be called elbow pipes - are irish bagpipes that are blown up using bellows, in order to be able to drink while playing.
What's your favorite Irish whiskey?
Tom played an old Irish song on his new French horn.
Tom likes listening to American English the most, but he also likes the sound of Irish English.
Tom doesn't like Irish coffee.
I want to learn Irish.
I speak Irish.
I don't speak Irish.
I love Irish music.
He is good at imitating her Irish accent.
Irish folklore has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.
I give up. What do an Irish priest and Congolese witch doctor have in common?
Irish is a very beautiful language.
Do you speak Irish?
Are you speaking Irish?
Dublin is an Irish town.

Movie subtitles

When not fighting the French, the English fought the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish. or themselves.
Uh. It was the only rhyme scheme I could remember, and I'm half-Irish, so.
Then the Mighty Irish push them out, until the Wops and the Jews take over.
Oh, yeah, but just against Irish people.
SIGHS Those Irish poets, eh?
He's no more bloody Irish than Vladimir Putin.
And I've never felt very Irish.
And he's not Irish.
Give out with this Irish caviar.
I'm Irish.
It may be Irish, but it's not unconnected, and I can prove it.
It's proud I am that I'm Irish.
Don't you be forgetting. that you're half Irish too.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them. the land they live on is like their mother.
Play the song about the Irish chiropodist.
Harrigan and Claude Rains had recently appeared in the well-received Theatre Guild production on Broadway of the Irish drama, The Moon in the Yellow River.
The actor playing the chief of detectives is Dudley Digges, another Irish-born actor who made his stage debut with the Abbey Theatre Players in Dublin, and first performed in the US in New York in 1904.
It's a characteristic we Irish have in common with the elephants.
He's alone on his quarterdeck in a fine Irish temper, I suspect.
Myself, I've the honor to be Irish, but part of my crew's English.
Give out with this Irish caviar. -Come on.
Typical Irish logic, totally unconnected.
It may be Irish, but it's not unconnected. I can prove it.
Don't you be forgetting that you're half Irish too.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother.
There's no getting away from it if you're Irish.
Give the old boy Irish stew.
How they been for you, Irish?
Hey, Irish.
Irish, you remember Cassie.
Right on the nose, Irish.
Hi, Irish!
How are you, Irish?

News and current affairs

Irish workers are leaving in droves to Canada, Australia, and the United States.
The Jubilee 2000 movement has adherents in all parts of the world, including Pope John Paul II, rock stars such as Bono of the Irish group U2, and non-governmental organizations representing many religions and professions.
When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970's.
It is also wrong to conflate Islamic terrorism with that of the Basque ETA, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, or the Irish Republican Army.
NEW YORK - After the Greek and Irish crises and the spread of financial contagion to Portugal, Spain, and possibly even Italy, the eurozone is now in a serious crisis.
Having secured an independent Irish state, Catholics in the Republic of Ireland came to accept the existence of a settler enclave in Northern Ireland.
But, the Irish story has not had a happy ending.
There should be a European growth strategy, rather than Spanish, Italian, or Irish strategies.
The Irish government's aim, of course, was to save the banking system.
So why should we believe that the markets have been correctly pricing the risk of Greek, Irish, or Portuguese debt?
If I were to take that trip, I might have gone to Ireland to discover that my Irish ancestors were originally from Scotland.
From Dublin on the shore of the Irish Sea to Bratislava in the foothills of the Carpathians, the same coins and banknotes are legal tender, and they are constantly pushing back the European Union's boundaries.
The European constitution has failed, the Lisbon reform treaty is in limbo after the Irish rejected it, and stronger European economic governance is blocked by German-French disunity.
For example, Ireland's massive sovereign debt arose because eurozone authorities, intent on saving the banking system, forced the Irish to nationalize their banks as a condition for keeping them afloat.
Irish workers are leaving in droves to Canada, Australia, and the United States. Spanish workers are streaming into Romania, which until recently had been a major source of agricultural labor in Spain.
In an ideal world, Europe would deal with its excessive debt burdens through a restructuring of Greek, Irish, and Portuguese liabilities, as well as municipal and bank debt in Spain.
Moreover, Irish GNP (the income accruing to its nationals, as distinct from foreign firms operating in Ireland) continues to shrink.
While the IMF's primary scenario is that Irish and Portuguese debt levels will soon stop rising, it comes with a chilling litany of downside risks.
Similarly, in guaranteeing the debt of Irish banks in September 2008, the Irish government did something that no responsible government should have contemplated.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.
Why this discussion had to take place now, in the middle of the Irish crisis, remains Chancellor Angela Merkel's secret.
With the Irish referendum, it has blindly and needlessly thrown itself into a political calamity.
What will be the consequences of the Irish referendum?
Recently, even Irish, spoken at home by only a tiny minority, was granted full official status.
How can a bond guaranteed in large part by countries such as Italy and Spain (likely candidates for a fiscal crisis) provide AAA status to Irish bonds?
Irish voters may reject the fiscal compact in a referendum.

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