Irish commonly refers to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to: **

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 ***

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 *** Erse (disambiguation), Scots language name for the Irish language or Irish people **

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 **

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 11,253. Its county seat is St. James, Minnesota, St. James. History In 1849, the new terri ...

, Watonwan County, Minnesota *

Irish Sea The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Ch ...

, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain

People

Irish (surname) Irish is a surname. Notable people bearing this name include: * Bill Irish (1932–1992), English lawn and indoor bowler * Carolyn Tanner Irish (1940–2021), Episcopal Bishop * Ernest G. Irish (1894–1955), Canadian politician * Frank Irish ...

, a list of people *

William Irish Cornell George Hopley Woolrich ( ; December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich th ...

, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) *

Irish Bella Yris Jetty Dirk de Beule (born ), better known as Irish Bella, is an Indonesian actress, model, and singer, best known for her roles in the films '' Love in Perth'' (2010), and '' Heart 2 Heart'' (2010), and the soap opera A soap opera (also c ...

, (born 1995) Indonesian actress *

Irish Bob Murphy Irish Bob Murphy (July 22, 1922 – August 17, 1961) was an Irish-American light heavyweight boxer who fought from 1945 to 1954. He was born Edwin Lee Conarty in Flagler, Colorado, but fought out of San Diego, California Californi ...

, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) *

Irish McCalla Nellie Elizabeth "Irish" McCalla (December 25, 1928 – February 1, 2002) was an American film and television actress and artist best known as the title star of the 1950s television series '' Sheena, Queen of the Jungle''. She co-starred with ac ...

, American actress and artist Nellie McCalla (1928–2002) *

Irish Meusel Emil Frederick "Irish" Meusel (June 9, 1893 – March 1, 1963) was an American baseball left fielder. He played in the major leagues between 1914 and 1927 for the Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants, and Brooklyn Robi ...

, American Major League Baseball player Emil Meusel (1893–1963) *

Irish McIlveen Henry Cooke "Irish" McIlveen (July 27, 1880 – October 18, 1960), commonly nicknamed "Irish" because he was born in Belfast, was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1906 and the New York Highlanders in ...

, Northern Ireland-born American Major League Baseball player Henry McIlveen (1880–1960)

Other uses

Irish (game) Irish or the Irish Game was an Anglo-Scottish tables game for two players that was popular from the 16th to the mid-18th centuries before being superseded by its derivative, the "faster paced" backgammon. In its day, Irish was "esteemed among the ...

, historical tables game that was the predecessor of backgammon *

London Irish London Irish RFC is a professional rugby union club that most recently competed in the Premiership Rugby, Premiership, the top division of rugby union in England. The club also participated in the European Rugby Champions Cup, European Champion ...

, a rugby union club in London, sometimes called just "Irish" {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages