ˌAnglo-ˈIrish, a. and n.
[f. Anglo-.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or descended from both the English and the Irish.
| 1839 T. C. Croker Pop. Songs of Ireland p. vi, The Anglo-Irish settlers degenerated. 1905 Daily Chron. 8 Feb. 3/3 This Gaelic world..did immeasurably more for poetry than the Anglo-Irish spheres. |
B. n. a. Collectively, persons of English descent born or resident in Ireland, or descendants of mixed English and Irish parentage. b. The English language as spoken or written in Ireland.
| 1792 Burke Let. Wks. 1845 III. 507 Finding the Anglo-Irish highly animated with a spirit, which had shewn itself before. 1834 Bancroft Hist. U.S. (1876) III. iv. 350 The Anglo-Irish could not intermarry with the Celts. 1927 J. J. Hogan Eng. Lang. in Ireland 16 The Poems..present a full mirror of medieval Anglo-Irish as used about 1300, the time of its greatest extension. 1940 L. Macneice Last Ditch 4 And the mist on the Wicklow hills Is close..As the Irish to the Anglo-Irish. |