Example sentences for: irish-

How can you use “irish-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • John F. Kennedy's election to the White House and the success of celebrities like Grace Kelly proved that the WASP establishment, which long impeded access to Irish-Americans, was crumbling.

  • Irish-Americans have fewer doubts about the more radical Irish nationalism than do most Irish.

  • The campaign bespeaks the transformation of Irish-American life.

  • Because they are Irish-Catholic, tightknit, and play touch football, the Baldwins constantly compare themselves to the Kennedys . It is a Baldwin commonplace to say that either Alec or Billy will become president.

  • If Irish-Americans tend to have a superficial understanding of their own history, and to focus on the positive aspects of their culture to the exclusion of less admirable parts, this only proves that they are human, and as prone to historical myopia as Anglophiles or Afrocentrists.


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