Sentence examples for attack on the irish from inspiring English sources

Set in Dublin's vodka-and-bitter-lemon belt, the comedy resonated as a Feydeau-esque farce, an attack on the Irish nouveau riche and as a metaphor for the new heritage-conscious tourist industry, with its bedrooms named after patriots and its ageing caretaker, Hoolihan, obliquely flying the flag as a veteran of the Easter Rising.

And there is still fun to be had from Synge's comic invention and attack on the Irish propensity for myth-making: as the publican's daughter, Pegeen Mike, finally tells Christy, "There's a great gap between a gallows story and a dirty deed".

The attack on 21 November 1974 was blamed on the The Irish Republican Army.

Mark Durkan, the SDLP leader, described the killings as "an attack on the chosen will of the Irish people, which is for a peaceful future with shared political institutions".

Amongst those arrested was Thomas Maguire, a young Royal Marine on leave, who unfortunately for him had been in the vicinity of the attack on the police van and was Irish.

This followed a stinging attack on the Catholic church by Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister.

He was ruled offside and the last attack went to the Irish with a free kick.

Yeats wrote the lyric as an attack on Irish politicians and clergy who refused to support workers in their struggle for basic rights.

In a speech largely devoted to broad attacks on the British and Irish governments, and Sinn Fein's Protestant rivals in Northern Ireland, Mr. Adams also tried to assuage fears that the I.R.A. might return to the violent and explosive campaign against Britain's rule in Northern Ireland.

The masterpiece of exiled Ulsterman Louis MacNeice, who is generally associated with the W.H. Auden generation of English leftist poets, is Autumn Journal (1939), its attack on Irish parochialism mingled with a powerful Modernist meditation on the rise of fascism in Europe.

The comedian's attack on the notion of a deity will be heard on an Irish religious affairs programme on Sunday night.