Irish commonly refers to:
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
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Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...
, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
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Éire
( , ) is the Irish language name for "Ireland". Like its English counterpart, the term is used for both the island of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the sovereign state that governs 85% of the island's landmass. The latter is distinc ...
, Irish language name for the island and the sovereign state
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Erse (disambiguation)
Erse or Earse may refer to:
*An alternative name for any Goidelic language, especially the Irish language, from ''Erische''
*A 16th–19th-century Scots language name for Scottish Gaelic. Also an archaic term for the Scots people, in use at least ...
, Scots language name for the Irish language or Irish people
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. ...
, a sovereign state
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...
, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Irish language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous ...
, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland
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Irish English
Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the first language in e ...
, set of dialects of the English language native to Ireland
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Irish people
The Irish ( or ''Na hÉireannaigh'') are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and Culture of Ireland, culture. There have been humans in Ireland for about 33,000 years, and it has be ...
, people of Irish ethnicity
Irish may also refer to:
Places
* Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas
* Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota
* Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota
* Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain
People
* Irish (surname), a list of people
* William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968)
* Irish Bella, (born 1995) Indonesian actress
* Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961)
* Irish McCalla, American actress and artist Nellie McCalla (1928–2002)
* Irish Meusel, American Major League Baseball player Emil Meusel (1893–1963)
* Irish McIlveen, Northern Ireland-born American Major League Baseball player Henry McIlveen (1880–1960)
Other uses
* Irish (game), historical tables game that was the predecessor of backgammon
* London Irish, a rugby union club in London, sometimes called just "Irish"
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