Which preposition to use with irish

in Occurrences 52%

As he put it, there was no joke in sleeping in a room with a numerous family of healthy Irish in one corner and the pigsty in the other, while overhead a ragged colony of roosting fowls distributed their blessings impartially, and the whole place so full of peat smoke that it made a fellow sneeze his head off just to put it inside the doorway.

of Occurrences 14%

Their fusion was perhaps impossible, but it was certainly rendered less possible by the perplexed and arbitrary interferences of later rulers in England, almost as foreign to the Anglo-Irish of the Pale as to the native tribes who, axe in hand and hidden in bog and swamp and forest, clung desperately to the ancient traditions and inheritance of their forefathers.

to Occurrences 13%

Once more they had increased their demands, requiring, besides the removal of the purely political grievances, a surrender of the right of appeal from the Irish to the English courts of law.

for Occurrences 10%

Did you know that pusheen is Irish for puss?

by Occurrences 7%

There were complaints too in the country of the endless lawsuits that now sprang up, probably from the infinite confusion that grew out of the attempt to override Irish by English law.

as Occurrences 6%

Then there was that irresistible folding about the eyes when he laughed, which is Irish as sin, and quite as attractive.

on Occurrences 5%

In consequence, her cruisers stopped every American vessel they met and searched the crew in order to reclaim the English, Scotch or Irish on board.

than Occurrences 5%

In respect to the Irish, if I could contribute to the future unity in action of the United States and England, I should more aid the Irish than by all exclamations against one or other.

with Occurrences 5%

Confederation of Scots and Irish with the Danes of Northumberland, totally defeated by Athelstan, at Brunanburh.

into Occurrences 5%

Earnest attempts had already been made by Hadrian's predecessor to bring the Irish into closer connection with the see of Rome.

from Occurrences 3%

Scots, Picts, and Irish from th' Hibernian shore, And conquering William brought the Normans o'er.

against Occurrences 2%

It must embitter the Irish against England, for which there is no need.

at Occurrences 2%

Mr. MICHAEL MACDONAGH continues the story which he began in The Irish at the Front.

without Occurrences 1%

Quite apart from this, too, Oriel (FISHER UNWIN) is after an unassuming fashion one of the most easily and happily read and, one would say, happily written books that has appeared for many a long day, with humour that is Irish without being too broadly of the brogue, and with people who are distinctive without ever becoming unnatural.

after Occurrences 1%

If we knew the Fire Worshippers better we might find that their centuries of pious observance have been rewarded, and that the fire has given them a little of its nature; and I am certain that the water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the Irish after its image.

among Occurrences 1%

As might be expected, there were not a few Irish among the disaffected spirits who fostered these revolutions.

beyond Occurrences 1%

The Irish beyond the Pale, and many within it, were loyal to the Church of their fathers, to the faith of Patrick, the faith of the Roman See.

near Occurrences 1%

About the middle of October, the titular archbishop of Tuam was slain in a skirmish[a] between two parties of Scots and Irish near Sligo; and in the carriage of the prelate were found duplicates of the whole negotiation.

out Occurrences 1%

The Irish out of their poverty established colleges in Rome (1628), Salamanca (1593), Seville (1612), Alcala (1590), Lisbon (1593), Louvain (1634), Antwerp (1629), Douai (1577), Lille (1610), Bordeaux (1603), Toulouse (1659), Paris (1605), and elsewhere.

towards Occurrences 1%

The different attitude of the modern Irish towards foreign laws and administration is amply explained by the morally indefensible character of those laws and that administration, to be read in English statutes and ordinances and in the history of English rule in Irelanda subject too vast and harrowing, and in every sense foreign to what has gone before, to be entered upon here.

under Occurrences 1%

The town of Sligo had been captured by the parliamentary troops under Coote, and in October, 1645, an attempt was made to recapture it by a party of Irish under a fighting prelate, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.

about Occurrences 1%

I think there must be something Irish about him, too, for he has a strain of sentiment and melancholy which can come directly after his most brilliant burst of spirits.

Which preposition to use with  irish