Definition of Irish

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Definition of Irish
	Irish Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants. The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic. An old game resembling backgammon. Related Definitions: An, Backgammon, Celtic, Game, Hiberno-Celtic, In, Irish, Language, Of, Old, Or, Pertaining, Produced, Resembling, The, Their, To

Irish Quotations

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
Jack Nicholson

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
William Butler Yeats

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
James Cagney

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Gerry Adams

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
Gerry Adams

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
Gerry Adams

Irish Translations

Irish in Afrikaans is Iers
Irish in Dutch is Iers
Irish in Finnish is irlantilainen
Irish in French is irlandais

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