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Irish English

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noun

  1. the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.


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They relied heavily on an existing speech model of primarily British-English accents — with a far smaller range of American, Canadian and Australian accents — to train it to speak Irish English.

From New York Times Jul. 1, 2023

The researchers turned to lists of surviving medieval texts—and those suspected to have been lost—written between 600 and 1450 C.E. in Dutch, French, Icelandic, Irish, English, and German.

From Science Magazine Feb. 16, 2022

He and his friends were keenly aware of who was Irish, English, French, Yankee — the American melting pot is on full display.

From Washington Post Mar. 10, 2016

They are descendants of the Spaniards, mixed with successive waves of Irish, English, French, Dutch, German.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next James—sharp blame to him—gave his daughter to William as woman and wife; made the Irish English, and the English Irish, like wheat and oats in the month of harvest.

From Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish by Gregory, Lady

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