Example Sentences

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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

Philip was by nature and training as gentle and amiable as a lamb, but he was a Young Irelander, and therefore a fighter on principle.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

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

I don't know whether they regarded me as a miserable Little Englander or a wicked Big Irelander.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir