Etymology

Proper noun

1. The Goidelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.

   Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland

1. The Irish people.
2. A board game of the tables family.
3. Temper; anger, passion.
   • 1947, Hy Heath, John Lange, Clancy Lowered the Boom

   Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom.

   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 65:

     But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.

4. whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
   • 1889, By Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men In A Boat

   Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of Irish worth drinking.

Adjective

1. Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.

   Sheep are typical in the Irish landscape.

2. Pertaining to the Irish language.
3. Nonsensical, illogical.