Concept cluster: History > Irish history and politics
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Alternative letter-case form of abo [(Australia, offensive, ethnic slur, slang) An aborigine; aboriginal.]
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(historical) An Iberian who supported the French during the Peninsular War.
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The countries allied against the Central Powers during World War I, including especially the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, and France.
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(historical) An ancient Irish public national assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor-worship practices.
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(Ireland, historical) Electoral strategy pursued by the Irish Republican movement in the 1980s and early 1990s, where elections in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were contested by Sinn Féin, while the IRA continued military operations against the British Army and RUC.
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(UK) A proposed seamless border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in the event of Brexit.
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A first-year female student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
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(historical) The four top Allied powers of World War I and their leaders: David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Woodrow Wilson of the United States, who met at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 at Versailles.
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A member of the RIC British irregular army group, operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.
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(Northern Ireland, historical) One of the prisoners who took part in the blanket protest.
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The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).
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(historical, Britain, Ireland) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 13 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
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(UK, humorous) Queen Elizabeth II.
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(obsolete, rare, west coast North America: British Columbia to Oregon) To go; depart, leave.
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The ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.
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(philately, historical) Any of the Indian feudal states which, during the time of the British Empire, used overprinted Indian stamps valid for postage outside the state.
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Of or relating to Cornell University.
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Localism among Irish-Americans, based on the Irish counties they originated from.
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(Britain, informal) Coventry
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(historical) A composite monarchy, from 1162–1716, which began as the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon with the County of Barcelona, was at its height in the 14th and 15th centuries and ended as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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One of the people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military rule in Argentina, presumed to have been killed by members of the regime.
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Pertaining to the area around Eldon Street and Burlington Street in Vauxhall, especially involving the tenants rights organization or housing cooperative there.
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Originating in Europe.
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(historical) A member of the Fenian Brotherhood or the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish republican organizations active in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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An Irish republican youth movement, founded by Constance Markievicz and Bulmer Hobson in 1909.
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(Ireland, poetic) the mass emigration of the younger population in the 1970s and 1980s due to unemployment.
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Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830).
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(historical) A set of events in late 1977, revolving around the kidnapping and murder of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, by the Red Army Faction (RAF), and the hijacking of the Lufthansa aeroplane Landshut by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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Epithet for World War I.
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Alternative form of green carder [(US) A Mexican citizen who has a green card to work in the United States, especially one who lives in Mexico and commutes across the border.]
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(Ireland) A council-sponsored campsite for members of the Travelling Community.
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(historical, especially) Self-government of the island of Ireland.
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Between dominions of the British Empire.
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(historical) An autonomous dominion under nominal British sovereignty that included most of the island of Ireland, created in 1922 as part of a treaty between the British government and Irish republicans.
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Any of several Irish guerrilla or terrorist organisations fighting British rule in Ireland (later Northern Ireland) since the early 20th century.
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(Ireland) A member of a particular nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland, the Pavee.
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(historical) A trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by English political leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, during the English Civil War.
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(Ireland) October 6, a day that commemorates the nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell.
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Pronunciation spelling of just, representing African-American Vernacular English. [Only, simply, merely.]
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(archaic, colloquial) The British East India Company.
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American musician Kanye West
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(Ireland, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by members of the Travelling Community/Gypsies.
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A characteristic of Londoners.
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Ferdinand Magellan. (Portuguese explorer)
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(historical) A group of seven individuals who were wrongly charged with supplying explosives to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican terrorist organization, for use in the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, England.
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The body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain, and sometimes Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.
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(UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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(historical) A 1787 proposal for the structure of the United States government.
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An Irish-American organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969, best known for raising funds for the Provisional IRA.
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The state or quality of being northern.
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(historical) Support for Daniel O'Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill; 1775–1847), Irish political leader who campaigned for Catholic emancipation.
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The parliament of Ireland.
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(Ireland, informal) a Loyalist or a member of the Orange Order; someone, usually a Protestant, who advocates keeping Northern Ireland under British control.
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A Northern Ireland religious and political organisation, loyal to the British crown and with strong anti-Catholicism policies.
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A member of the Orange Order, a Protestant society in the United Kingdom (especially Northern Ireland).
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(slang, Ireland, sometimes derogatory) A Protestant, especially one that is a member of the Protestant unionist community of Northern Ireland.
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(Ireland, offensive, slang) A pro-British Ulster Protestant.
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(historical) State of the Teutonic Order
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(US, chiefly Minnesota) Someone from outstate (the part of a state outside the major metropolitan areas).
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(Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.
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(historical) A former colonial settlement in Rhode Island; the mainland portion of Rhode Island
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(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.
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(informal) The Irish Republican Army.
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(Ireland) Violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.
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(historical) A member of an agrarian rebel group active in the south-west of Ireland from 1821 to 1824, whose figurehead was the mythical folk hero Captain Rock.
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Republican Sinn Féin
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(by extension) A place of adventure, romance and intrigue.
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(informal, Canada, Britain) The Salvation Army.
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(Australia, informal) Scott Morrison (born 1968), Australian politician and 30th Prime Minister of Australia.
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(rare) A person who lives or works in Silicon Valley.
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(Irish politics) An Irish political party committed to the reunification of Ireland.
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(historical) An extension of the Papal Inquisition, set up in 15th-century Spain to investigate and punish converted Jews and Muslims thought to be insincere.
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The national anthem of the United States of America.
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(Britain, especially Scotland and Northern Ireland, derogatory) A Catholic.
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(Ireland, Britain) The Black and Tans, a British irregular army group operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.
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(Ireland, historical) World War II.
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(sometimes derogatory) The developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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(dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups. A gypsy.
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(Ireland) Irish English standard spelling of Irish Traveller.; A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland.
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(Ireland) A nomadic ethnic minority, the Irish Travellers.
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(Ireland, historical) The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.
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(historical) A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.
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(Ireland, UK, historical) A unionist mass protest campaign against the provisions of the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement which gave the government of the Republic of Ireland an advisory role in Northern Ireland's government.
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The rise of nationalism in a region, and consequent rejection of traditional left/right politics in favour of nationalist/unionist politics.
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An Irish nationalist advocating a United Ireland.
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(Ulster) people from any part of Ireland except northeast Ulster
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The queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901.
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(informal, film) Characteristic of the western genre of action films.
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(politics, historical) An Irish political, cultural and social movement of the mid-19th century that began as a tendency within Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association but eventually split to found the Irish Confederation in 1847.
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(historical) A supporter of the Young Ireland movement of the mid-19th century, which led changes in Irish nationalism, including an abortive rebellion in 1848.

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