Irish may refer to:
- Irish cuisine
- Ireland, an island in north-western Europe, on which are located:
- Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom
- Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state
- Irish language, a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland and by communities worldwide
- Irish (Junior Cert), a subject of the Junior Cycle examination in Secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland
- Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland, people who hold Irish Citizenship
- Irish (name), a first or last name
Famous quotes containing the word irish:
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)