“You fellows would have been nursing me behind my back, to use an Irishism, and trying to prevent my noticing it.”

“No man in the industrial machine is a free-will agent, except the large capitalist, and he isn't, if you'll pardon the Irishism.”

“Kilt, an Irishism for badly beaten, but by no means equivalent with killed.”

“While there remained any doubt about the issue of the conflict between the Englishry and the Irishry, he had stood aloof.”

“But the war cry of the Irishry had scarcely died away when the first faint murmurs of the Englishry began to be heard.”

“Woodrow Wilson, being a Democratic politician, could proclaim his Irishry to a St Patrick's Day parade and in many intellectual and cultural matters was a strong anglophile.”

“If a young Irishwoman sought employment by consulting newspaper advertisements, she would soon confront anti-Irish prejudice.”

“The London-based Irishwoman had her eyes set on double success here in Lisbon.”

“Meanwhile, a young Irishwoman injured by the explosion in Bali was still in a serious condition last night.”

“The Irishman rode Alan Jarvis-trained Lady Pahia to victory in the Mortarmill Organic Dairy Fillies' Stakes.”

“The director is an Irishman married to a Puerto Rican, with an obvious interest in his wife's culture.”

“An Irishman called Murphy has been educating himself to speak the Queen's English.”

“Begas said Irishwomen had to coordinate travel arrangements with clinic availability and also incurred greater expense.”

“She leads a handful of Irishwomen who handle lucrative public relations accounts for the cream of Irish business.”

“Breast cancer claims the lives of 630 Irishwomen annually and almost 1,700 new cases are diagnosed each year.”

“The Irishmen overturned a 17-point deficit and owed victory to a controlled display from their abrasive pack that wore down the hosts.”

“In all, about 210,000 Irishmen served in the British forces during World War One.”

“When London needed yeomanry, police, militia or regiments to suppress the United Irishmen, the Fenians or the IRA, Orangemen were there.”

“Sometimes, it's the unique Irishisms that get the biggest laugh, especially when they're lost in translation.”