Example sentences of "[vb past] the irish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawn to socialism by her sister , Eva , she met the Irish labour leaders , James Connolly and James Larkin [ qq.v. ] , and helped the 1913 lockout strike of Dublin workers by running a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall . |
| 2 | Peter Brooke , the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , met the Irish Foreign Minister , Gerard Collins , on Oct. 25 , in pursuit of Brooke 's stalled initiative aimed at reviving talks on the political future of Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | That made the Irish Sea the most radioactive stretch of water in the world . |
| 4 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 5 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 6 | Before 1914 , it became the Irish TUC and Labour Party and was neutral to the Easter rising of 1916 . |
| 7 | Jennings , who recently became the Irish Duathlon champion , fought back after exiting the pool one-and-a-half minutes behind Belfast 's Grace Kerr . |
| 8 | When a little old lady on Weybridge station platform asked the Irish stationmaster why there were two large wall clocks each giving a different time by a few minutes , the answer came in a fine Irish brogue : ‘ Ah , yes ma'am ! |
| 9 | At Immigration he produced the Irish passport that the Colonel had given him . |
| 10 | But secularizing moves by the English liberals — over the Education Bills of 1902 , 1906 , and a private member 's Bill of 1911 — led the Irish hierarchy to question some of the political intentions of the Irish politicians , who it was feared might sell out the church 's interest in schools . |
| 11 | The towering Quinn led the Irish attack with relish despite an overnight scare when he was in agony from a grumbling appendix . |
| 12 | Her aunt Moyra McElderry captained the Irish hockey side in the 1960s . |
| 13 | By November 1308 he had apparently renounced the world and entered the Irish Dominican house at Trim , where he died on 21 October 1314 . |
| 14 | ULSTER retained the Irish Senior Inter-provincial table tennis title in Galway last night beating Leinster 6–5 in a nail-biting climax to the tournament . |
| 15 | Some weeks after this Party launch , one key member was shot and a major split created the Irish National Liberation Army . |
| 16 | Two years later he moved to Dublin as secretary of the Dublin Socialist Club , out of which , in 1896 , he created the Irish Socialist Republican Party to spread his message that socialism and nationalism were complementary and incompatible with sectarianism . |
| 17 | The Russian and Irish revolutions stimulated this radicalism still further and the period between 1910 and 1926 has been extensively treated as a potentially revolutionary period.4 Certainly there was a revolution , but it created the Irish Free State rather than the Socialist Commonwealth . |
| 18 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 19 | Like Humbert 's French of later times , he regarded the Irish as well-disposed ‘ primitive people ’ . |
| 20 | Clinton wooed the Irish vote in his campaign by promising to send a peace envoy to Northern Ireland , a move regarded by Britain as an intrusion into a domestic issue . |
| 21 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 22 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 23 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , it 'll definitely be this Tuesday , ’ he told The Scotsman but then told the Irish Times it would be 1 April . |
| 25 | McBride 's intervention at such a crucial stage visibly lifted the Irish and six minutes later Elwood was on target with the first of his penalties . |
| 26 | No fewer than six play in central European football with three coming from Austria Vienna — Robertas Fridrikas — a player who hits a free kick like Ronald Koeman — Valdas Ivanauskas and the skilful midfield playmaker Arminas Narbekovas , It was Narbekovas and Fridrikas who scored in Belfast while the strong runs of 6 foot 2 inch Ivanauskas caused the Irish defence many problems . |
| 27 | For a few months in 1796 she and her mother joined her father in Sligo ; here she studied the Irish language . |
| 28 | The Lough Erne Club , who previously hosted the Irish GP14 championships in 1982 and 1989 , will be extending their usual hospitality combined with a high standard of race organisation . |
| 29 | THE Hills family dominated the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh today when Nicer stormed to victory under Michael Hills and the winning trainer was his father Barry . |
| 30 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |