Old Irish Definition

noun
The Gaelic language of Ireland from the earliest period to the 11th cent.
Webster's New World
The Irish language from 725 to about 950.
American Heritage
pronoun

The Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries CE, the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive texts (written in the Latin alphabet) are extant.

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Old Irish Sentence Examples

  • There are Old-Irish Catholics, under pope's nuncios, under Abba O'Teague of the excommunications, and Owen Roe O'Neill, demanding not religious freedom only, but what we now call ` repeal of the union,' and unable to agree with Catholics of the English Pale.

  • The old Irish gods in the poetic romances appear to have the same origin and shade away into the fairies.

  • Hence they had no scruple about rooting out the old Irish from Ulster.

  • The first individual to pass through Ellis Island was a 15 year old Irish girl named Annie Moore.

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Words Starting With

OOLOLD

Words Ending With

HSHISH

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Words Starting With O and Ending With H

Starts With O & Ends With HStarts With OL & Ends With HStarts With O & Ends With SH

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With O9 Letter Words Ending With H