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Northern Irelander en · NOUN

Etymology

From Northern Ireland + -er.

Meanings

1. A person from Northern Ireland
   • Secondly, he had noted from his days as a student in England that the British “look upon those from Northern Ireland as Irish,” and the entire island as an entity connected by what he called “Irish things,” such as Catholic banning of suggestive movies. He told me that a Northern Irelander in Great Britain is not regarded as a citizen of the United Kingdom, but simply someone from Ireland. 2003, Carol Daugherty Rasnic, “Epilogue”, in Northern Ireland: Can Sean and John Live in Peace? : An American Legal Perspective, →ISBN, page 300:

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Relateds

Northern Irishman · Northern Irishwoman · Northern Irish