Sentence examples for irish background from inspiring English sources

"My true love was my Irish background".

Instead, Guevara talked of his Irish background.

Marie was from an Irish background, born and raised in Oyster Bay, New York.

It hasn't happened to me, personally which, given my Irish background, makes me constantly look over my shoulder.

Kennedy was not of ancient Puritan descent: quite the contrary, he was from a Catholic, Irish background, the grandfathers and cousins being Murphys, Hannans, Hickeys, Fitzgeralds.

One million people died and another million were forced to emigrate, which is why there are people of Irish background all over the world, not least in Australia.

According to a recent Pew study, a growing number of such individuals no longer identify as Hispanic — much as Americans from, say, a mix of Slavic and Italian and Irish backgrounds may now mainly think of themselves as whites.

"She comes from an Anglo-Irish background," Dame Judi said of Dame Iris, "which is the same as mine, and she had Quakerism in her immediate family, as I do: quite small points like that.

She was born in Ireland in 1899, but until her death in 1973 spent most of her adult life in London, where she befriended, among others, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster and Ivy Compton-Burnett; like so many people of Anglo-Irish background, she always thought of herself as neither Anglo nor Irish.

Born to an Anglo-Irish family who were neighbours of the Parnells in County Wicklow, much of Acton's strength (and vulnerability) as a critic came from his Anglo-Irish background, a condition which made him English in Ireland but Irish in England - a no-man's land in terms of cultural identity and affiliation.

She came from a modest Scots-Irish background in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, and after her father died leaving debts, her mother struggled to support the family.