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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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Irish English, said Mr. Cotescu, who is Romanian and was the lead researcher on the Irish Alexa team, “is a hard one.”

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 English Government were so sensible of the loyalty of the Irish English Catholics that they entrusted them with the most confidential services.

From Peter Plymley's Letters, and selected essays by Sydney Smith

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