Anglo-Irish

[ang-gloh-ahy-rish]

noun

1. persons of English descent living in Ireland.

2. Hiberno-English.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Anglo-Irish or their speech.

2. Hiberno-Saxon.

Anglo-Irish

noun

1. (functioning as plural) the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent

2. the English language as spoken in Ireland

adjective

1. of or relating to the Anglo-Irish

2. of or relating to English and Irish

3. of or relating to the English language as spoken in Ireland

Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglo-Irish¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

Born in London in 1934 into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart was the daughter of Viscount Castlereagh, who later became The 8th Marquess of Londonderry.

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An attempt in 1985 by the then UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher to improve the security and political situation by signing an Anglo-Irish Agreement with the Dublin government led to sustained unionist protests.

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“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay,” warned the Anglo-Irish poet and novelist Oliver Goldsmith in 1777.

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To understand where they, Bannon, Musk, Miller, Peter Thiel and others are taking us, ponder a prophecy from 18th-century Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, which the late Tony Judt adapted for the title of his final book: "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey/ Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

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Reading the work of the formerly famous Anglo-Irish historian William Edward Hartpole Lecky, in his day seen as one of the most eminent scholars of the Victorian age, is like taking a disorienting ride in an intellectual hot-tub time machine.

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