Irish

//ˈaɪɹɪʃ//

"Irish" in a Sentence (20 examples)

I hear you Irish are a bunch of drinkin' fools.

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?

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.

In 1880, the Irish boycotted a landowner, Captain C.C. Boycott, for failing to lower rents.

The 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, so one can drink while playing.

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Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland.

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.

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.

The Priest is as fierce a fighter as I am when he gets his Irish up.

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.

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.

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.

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