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“It’s just plugging in and going with the flow and then sourcing that energy,” he said with the clipped brogue characteristic of a Northern Irelander.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2019

He also has a tough act to follow, his fellow Northern Irelander Graeme McDowell having just won the last major, the United States Open.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2010

We have said that though Mr. Ferguson could hardly be called a Young Irelander in politics, all the elective affinities of his genius tended toward that school of thought.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

There were then three other weekly papers in Dublin, The Register, the Freeman, and the Old Irelander.

From The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 by Doheny, Michael

The poet to whom its execution is especially due can hardly be called a Young Irelander in the political sense of the word.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.