Use irish in a sentence
Sentences starting with irish
- Irish independence, so far as English consent is concerned, and until England's power is utterly broken, is a dream. [4]
Sentences ending with irish
- He would own neither to German nor Irish. [4]
- It's not Irish music, and it's not Irish song, but the soul of the thing is Irish. [11]
- Well, there it is, there's no sayin' how ignorant y'are if y'are not Irish. [11]
- The same thing exists here, among the Irish. [5]
- We're never two days alike, we Irish. [11]
Short sentences using irish
- He is Irish, you know. [5]
- Royal Irish Academy,' vol. [1]
- R. Irish Academy,' vol. [1]
- No Irish need apply. [5]
- Teague, Irish name, 143. [6]
Sentences containing irish two or more times
- At three o'clock one morning I stood on the crowded deck of an Irish mail-boat watching the full moon riding over Holyhead Mountain and shimmering on the Irish Sea. [9]
- Joe, do you know the Irish gentleman and the Irish lady, the Scotch gentleman and the Scotch lady? [5]
- He was dressed in a well-worn suit of brown, and I recall a decided Irish face, and a more decided Irish accent, which presently I forgot under the spell of his eloquence. [9]
More example sentences with the word irish in them
- Well, then, don't you see the fateful moment has come in Irish life and history? [11]
- Crozier was speaking with the look of the man who hypnotises himself, who "sees things," who dreams as only the gambler and the plunger on the turf do dream, not even excepting the latter-day Irish poets. [11]
- Dublin and Ireland were shocked and thrilled; England imagined she had come upon one of the most violent episodes of Irish history. [11]
- The idea that we could involves the same absurdity as the Irish bull about the new boots. [7]
- Last night it was Irish again, at Lady Gregory's. [5]
- The Irish parliament was confessedly a failure, and it is scarcely within the possibilities that the experiment will be tried again. [4]
- Simplicity was his very life, and yet he had a gift for following the sinuosities of the Oriental mind; he had a quality almost clairvoyant, which came, perhaps, from his Irish forebears. [11]
- It was a true Irish day. [11]
- I have often told her since that the sorest trial she had was the guard she kept on her tongue,--a hardship indeed for one of Irish inheritance. [9]
- The Irish got to piling up hacks so, on their funerals, that a funeral left them ragged and hungry for two years afterward; so the priest pitched in and broke it all up. [5]
- I'll teach him to leave me and my kid and go off with an Irish cook! [11]
- They'll have orders to land on the coast, to join the Irish patriots, to take control of the operations, and then to march on--" He was going to say "march on Dublin," but he stopped. [11]
- Our Huns began to arrive, their Attilas unrecognized among them: to drive our honest Americans and Irish and Germans out of the mills by "lowering the standard of living. [9]
- For the second time I took the hand of Charles O'Byrne, the celebrated Irish giant of the last century. [6]
- It was in this way that he found out that when a white man robs a sluice-box (by the term white man is meant Spaniards, Mexicans, Portuguese, Irish, Hondurans, Peruvians, Chileans, etc., etc. [5]
- Terence dashed at them now and then, and they fled screaming into dooryards to come out again and mimic him when he had passed, while mothers and fathers and grandfathers smiled at the good nature in his Irish face. [9]
- At the time the story opens he was a figure of note among those who spent their time in criticizing the government and damning the Irish Parliament. [11]
- As Mrs. Flynn, the Seigneur's Irish cook, said of her: "Shure, she's not made all av wan piece, the darlin'! [11]
- Whips cracked, and the loud voices of jarveys shouted blatant humour and Irish fun at horse and passenger. [11]
- I judged that the Irish knight was in trouble with the visitors by this time, and this turned out to be the case. [5]
- But why had the departure of the Irish, the coming of the Syrians made Dey Street dark, narrow, mysterious, oriental? [9]
- The Seigneur and the Cure arrived together, each to order the making of a greatcoat of the Irish frieze which the Seigneur kept in quantity at the Manor. [11]
- There is, however, the Celtic strain, the Irish blood, immediate of the tang, as it were, and no doubt a sympathy between the Celtic and the Gallic strain is very near, and has a tendency to become very dear. [11]
- The air was still, gently bracing, and, like most Irish air, adorably sweet. [11]
- I have also some Irish whiskey. [11]
- He is a self-respecting, able young Irish American of the blue-eyed type that have died by thousands on the battle fields of France, and whose pictures may be seen in our newspapers. [9]
- English, Irish, and Scotch from the British Isles and the ends of the earth mingle there with Indians, Egyptians, and the chattering Mongolians in queer fur caps who work in the bakeries. [9]
- That's an Irish saying, I know, but it expresses my meaning. [9]
- The Irish servant saw that some change had come over her, and thought of the great ladies she had sometimes looked upon in the old country. [6]
- Mr. Trowbridge, who resembled a lean and greying Irish terrier, maintained that he had. [9]
- That is the reason the Irish emigrate--they desire two crops the same year. [4]
- He had a quarrelsome mind; he had been influenced by the writings of Wolfe Tone, the Irish rebel. [11]
- Why, what's to prevent you, Dyck Calhoun, from being president of the Irish Republic? [11]
- He held high position, he was her fellow countryman and an Irish peer, and she was the daughter of an evil man, who was, above all else, a traitor to his country, though Lord Mallow did not know that. [11]
- He was a poor Irish peer, with no wide circle of acquaintance, come of a family none too popular. [11]
- A giant Irish policeman, who seemed in continual danger of a violent death, and wholly indifferent to it, stood between the car tracks and halted the rush from time to time, driving the people like sheep from one side to the other. [9]
- What's this Irish policeman to you? [11]
- Then, when I pointed out to him that by that rule he excludes the Germans, the Irish, the Portuguese, and all the other people who have come among us since the revolution, he reconstructs his construction. [7]
- Heaven knows who painted it, though no great art were needed to suggest on canvas the tough fabric of that sitter, who was more Irish than Scotch. [9]
- Quota men, the output of the Irish prisons--seditious, conspiring, dangerous--were drafted for the king's service. [11]
- Is it Irish, or--do you mind my asking? [11]
- Why should this one man who seemed capable and had the temperament of the Irish hills and vales be the victim of punishment and shame--why should he shame her? [11]
- He was an old peasant of the usual Irish type, coarsely but cleanly dressed. [11]
- We had an old nurse in our family who came from Irish hills, faithful and kind to us both. [11]
- Was it because of those Spanish hidalgoes wrecked on the Irish coast long since? [11]
- No better illustration of this tendency could be given than the development which had recently taken place in the field of our city politics, hitherto the battle-ground of Irish politicians who had fought one another for supremacy. [9]
- The main feature of the feast was a piping hot Irish stew made of the potatoes and meat left over from a procession of previous meals. [5]
- Following the instincts of his Irish ancestors, he then leagued with a professional smuggler, and began to deal in contraband liquors and cigars. [11]
- We commonly speak of a man as being the worse for liquor, but I was asking an Irish laborer one day about his doctor, who, as he said, was somewhat given to drink. [3]
- You will have noticed that in S. A. as in the Mutiny, it is usually the Irish and the Scotch that are placed in the fore-front of the battle. [5]
- And I am not of as much consideration at the Hall as Brady, the Irish convict, who has become overseer. [9]
- His word was, 'No Irish need apply! [5]
- I could never meet an Irish gentleman--if it had been the Duke of Wellington himself--without stumbling upon the word "Paddy,"--which I use rarely in my common talk. [6]
- It wouldn't surprise me if the astute English bribe them into a union, to the ruin of Irish Independence. [11]
- See also Prof. Macalister in 'Proceedings, Royal Irish Academy,' vol. [1]
- At times the low hum of voices rose to what was almost an uproar, and on occasions I distinguished a marked Irish brogue. [9]
- Just life and living tell me things, and maybe, too, the Irish in me that father was. [11]
- A man must live, and there's that purty lass with the Irish eyes! [11]
- Newcastle is another likely place, and in almost any of the Irish ports valuable vessels may be found. [9]
- The first Mrs. Kilquhanity had sworn, with an oath that took no account of the Cure's presence, that not a stick nor a stone nor a rag nor a penny should that Irish slattern have of Matthew Kilquhanity's! [11]
- The Irish Parliament is slipping into disrepute. [11]
- An Irish Republican is a pariah among his people. [5]
- He was an Irishman, son of an Irish king--there were thirty thousand kings reigning in County Cork alone in his time, fifteen hundred years ago. [5]
- Lord Roberts is Irish; and Sir William Butler; and Kitchener, I think; and a disproportion of the other prominent Generals are of Irish and Scotch breed-keeping up the traditions of Wellington, and Sir Colin Campbell of the Mutiny. [5]
- Besides, like the Irish, they had a love of feminine nature, and in all the river-coves Junia was known by sight at least, and was admired. [11]
- The landlady, an Irish woman from Devonshire, says it is six francs a day. [4]
- Here is your Irish stew, and--er--it gives me the greatest pleasure to send it to you, and I hope that you will enjoy the charity as much as I enjoy conferring it. [5]
- When the hesitating Irish serving-man had acknowledged that the ladies were at home, and had taken her card to them, she sat waiting for them in the drawing-room. [8]
- Says he, 'No Irish need apply! [5]
- He began an informal series of religious conversations with Miss O'Brien, the young person of Irish extraction already referred to as Bridget, maid of all work. [6]
- Here and there in the wide prospect were plantations where Irish landlords lived, and paid a heavy price for living. [11]
- She was singing in Irish too. [11]
- But as the impossible did not happen, she finally ventured to speak up and remind her husband that Nat Brady hadn't been helped to the Irish stew. [5]
- I don't know how you Irish spell it, but I want it. [5]
- Mistress Fagan, Irish, house-servant, opened the door, at which Nurse Byloe knocked softly, as she was in the habit of doing at the doors of those who sent for her. [6]
- Her mind and her tongue, however, were Irish like her father's. [11]
- We had not heard much talk of political matters at the dinner-tables where we had been guests, but A---- sat near a lady who was very earnest in advocating the Irish side of the great impending question. [6]
- The first to have musical setting was "You'll Travel Far and Wide," to which in 1895 Mr. Arthur Foote gave fame as "An Irish Folk Song. [11]
- A certain clergyman had prayed to be delivered from the Irish, the Dutch, and the Devil. [9]
- The Irish would govern the Kingdom of Heaven if they had a strength there like that. [5]
- Shall be very glad for you to raise 3000 Irish troops if done by the consent of and in concert with Governor Seymour. [7]
- Why does it give poison to an Irish soldier? [11]
- Then suddenly he gave a soft call, the call of an Irish bird-note which all people in Ireland--in the west and south of Ireland--know. [11]
- He was descended from a long line of Irish Kings, and he was the first one of them who had ever come into his kingdom--the kingdom of such being the city of New York. [5]
- He was hail fellow, indeed, with jockeys and financiers, great ladies and municipal statesmen of good Irish stock. [9]
- In fact, foreign faces and foreign tongues prevailed in Greenwich Village, but no longer German or even Irish tongues or faces. [8]
- He was glaringly English, and that was necessarily against him in the political centre of a nation where both parties prayed for the Irish cause on the house-top and blasphemed it in the cellar. [5]
- There's manny an English and Irish lullaby that'll be sung to her hence and onward; and there's manny an English song she'll sing when she's got her voice, and is big enough. [11]
- What have we done, we Irish people, that we shouldn't have a chance in our own country? [11]
- But in those days I cared more for pleasing myself than for what might become a newly-made professor, and I was prepared to say with a renowned Irish dean: "Dignity and I might be married, for all the relations we are. [11]
- For on this day, the 7th of June, Mr. Gladstone was to make his great speech on the Irish question, and the division of the House on the Government of Ireland Bill was to take place. [6]
- This is a day when we celebrate the anniversary of Irish power and life. [11]
- Pushing through the crowd in the corridor outside the bridal suite waiting to shake hands with the new governor, Mr. Crewe gained an entrance in no time, and did not hesitate to interrupt the somewhat protracted felicitations of an Irish member of the Newcastle delegation. [9]
- Let this imitation Cleopatra use the Cleopatra's arts; this mellow Romeo (sometime an Irish landlord) vow to this coy Juliet; this Helen of Troy-- Of all who walked these decks, mantled and wigged in characters not their own, Mrs. Falchion was the handsomest, most convincing. [11]
- Mr. Sidney Algernon Burley entered, clad from head to heel in dazzling snow--that is to say, in the lightest and whitest of Irish linen. [5]
- See also Owen, 'British Fossil Mammals,' on the Irish elk, pp. [1]
- An' ye'll plaze bring on yer men--four it was--for the feed av Irish pemmican. [11]
- Down at the bottom of his chivalrous Irish heart he had learned the truth, that to be dependent on her would beget in her contempt for him, and he would be only her paid paramour and not her husband in the true sense. [11]
- He had white blood in his veins--fighting Irish blood--which sometimes overcame his smooth, Oriental secretiveness and cautious duplicity; and this was one of those occasions. [11]
- At last when attempts were made to elect to Parliament an Irish lawyer who added to his impecuniousness, eloquence, a half-finished University education, and an Orangeman's prejudices of the best brand of Belfast or Derry, inter-civic strife took the form of physical violence. [11]
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