Example Sentences

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"I'm half-Irish myself, but I truly understand the luck of the Irish now. It's pretty cool."

From BBC • May 11, 2025

“Lost Stories” focuses instead on long-forgotten heroes like Solomon Garcia Smith, a half-Irish, half-Mexican from Los Angeles who was the first-ever Latino world champion when he won the featherweight title in 1893.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2021

A year later, I was sitting on a couch with a half-Irish writer named Jean, listening to “Pictures at an Exhibition,” a piano piece by Modest Mussorgsky.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 21, 2019

The half-Irish, half-Italian women posted prints of the pope and the Last Supper on the walls.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2016

He was half-Irish, and the sentiment of the songs appealed to him.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine