irish

The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.

Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland.

The Irish people.

Many Irish are actually darkhaired as a result of the many invaders and migrants over the centuries.

America used to love dams... Yes, and we built those dams with ingenuity and brawn and, of course, piles and piles of dead Irish.

A surname originating as an ethnonym.

A female given name of chiefly Philippine usage.

A board game of the tables family.

Temper; anger, passion.

But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.

Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom.

Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.

Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of Irish worth drinking.

Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.

Sheep are typical in the Irish landscape.

A. Fink-Nottle: But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I mean, listen to this: "Sure and begorrah, I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael." I mean, what on earth is this "what's after being" stuff mean? B.W. Wooster: My dear old Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.

Pertaining to the Irish language.

nonsensical, daft or complex.

The slur continued with Irish confetti, a popular term for paving stones or Belgian bricks that were laid in New York streets beginning about 1832.