Irish moss
carrageen
carageen
carragheen
Chondrus crispus | dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America |
| Irish wolfhound | large breed of hound with a rough thick coat |
| Irish terrier | medium-sized breed with a wiry brown coat, developed in Ireland |
Irish setter
red setter | an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahoganyed coat |
| Irish water spaniel | breed of large spaniels developed in Ireland having a heavy coat of liverolored curls and a topknot of long curls and a nearly hairless tail |
bullshit
bull
Irish bull
horseshit
shit
crap
dogshit | obscene words for unacceptable behavior, I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk, what he said was mostly bull |
Irish
Irish Gaelic | the Celtic language of Ireland |
| Old Irish | Irish Gaelic up to about |
| Middle Irish | Irish Gaelic from to |
the Irish Famine
the Great Hunger
the Great Starvation
the Great Calamity | a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight, between and a million people starved to death and . million emigrated (most to America) |
| stew | food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables |
| Brunswick stew | spicy southern specialty: chicken (or small game) with corn and tomatoes and lima beans and okra and onions and potatoes |
mulligan stew
mulligan
Irish burgoo | Irish version of burgoo |
| Irish stew | meat (especially mutton) stewed with potatoes and onions |
| oyster stew | oysters in cream |
| lobster stew | diced lobster meat in milk or cream |
| fish stew | a stew made with fish |
| chicken stew | a stew made with chicken |
| turkey stew | a stew made with turkey |
| beef stew | a stew made with beef |
| stew meat | tough meat that needs stewing to be edible |
| Irish soda bread | round loaf made with soda and buttermilk, often containing caraway seeds and raisins |
potato
white potato
Irish potato
murphy
spud
tater | an edible tuber native to South America, a staple food of Ireland |
carbonnade flamande
Belgian beef stew | beef stewed in beer seasoned with garlic and served with boiled potatoes |
Irish
Irish whiskey
Irish whisky | whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley |
| Irish coffee | sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and whipped cream |
Continuity Irish Republican Army
CIRA
Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional IRA
Provos | a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
Real IRA
Real Irish Republican Army
RIRA
Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Ireland Republic of Ireland
Irish Republic
Eire | a republic consisting of of counties comprising the island of Ireland, achieved independence from the United Kingdom in |
Dublin
Irish capital
capital of Ireland | capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic |
| Irish Sea | an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland |
Irish person
Irelander | a native or inhabitant of Ireland |
Irish
Irish people | people of Ireland or of Irish extraction |
strawberry tree
Irish strawberry
Arbutus unedo | small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland, of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor |
gorse
furze
whin Irish gorse
Ulex europaeus | very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers, common throughout western Europe |
| Irish monetary unit | monetary unit in Eire |
Irish pound
Irish punt
punt
pound | formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland, equal to pence |
fret
stew
sweat lather
swither | agitation resulting from active worry, don't get in a stew, he's in a sweat about exams |
| stew | cook slowly and for a long time in liquid, Stew the vegetables in wine |
stew
grudge | bear a grudge, harbor ill feelings |
grizzle
brood
stew | be in a huff, be silent or sullen |
| Irish | of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people |