Irish Explained

Irish commonly refers to:

• Someone or something of, from, or related to:
  • Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
    • Éire, Irish language name for the isle or the Republic of Ireland
    • Erse, Scots language name for the Irish language or Irish people
  • Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state
• Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland
• Irish English
• Irish people, 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, Minnesota
• Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain

People

• Irish (surname), a list of people
• William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968)
• Irish Bella, (born 1995) Indonesian actress
• Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961)
• Irish McCalla, American actress and artist Nellie McCalla (1928–2002)
• Irish Meusel, American Major League Baseball player Emil Meusel (1893–1963)
• Irish McIlveen, Northern Ireland-born American Major League Baseball player Henry McIlveen (1880–1960)

Other uses

• Irish (game), historical tables game that was the predecessor of backgammon
• London Irish, a rugby union club in London, sometimes called just "Irish"