The Census Bureau says that in two thousand seven, thirty-six and a half million people in the United States claimed Irish ancestry.
VOA: special.2009.03.16
Aengus is the Celtic name, the Celtic master of love a certain kind of Irish version of Apollo.
安古斯是个凯尔特名字,是爱神,是爱尔兰的阿波罗。
I'm a half, yeah. I'm half Japanese and half Irish.
我是日本和爱尔兰的混血儿。
When a German submarine sank a British ship in the Irish Sea, one of the victims was an American citizen.
VOA: special.2010.10.07
Misunderstood as a satire on the Irish peasantry, Yeats's production of the play led to riots in 1909.
被误解为对爱尔兰农民的嘲讽,此剧引起了1909年的暴乱。
He helped give the Irish band a musical identity with the use of delay effects in repeating notes.
VOA: special.2009.08.07
In 1877 a general called Mac-Mahon, who had fought in the 1870/71 war-- you may think that that's not a very French name; there's a strong Irish influence around Bordeaux.
877年麦克马洪元帅,他参加了普法战争--,你可能觉得那不是一个常用的法国名字,爱尔兰对波尔多有着很强的影响力
Potato shortages caused at least one million deaths and a wave of Irish immigration to America.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
And the reinvention in the nineteenth century of British identity will also have a lot to do with fear of the Irish, "The enemy within," As they were perceived.
十九世纪英国民认同感的重建,和对爱尔兰的惧怕也有很大关系,"家贼难防",他们是这样看待爱尔兰的
O'Neill was an Irish-American with a dark and violent view of human nature.
VOA: special.2011.01.06
Pearse is seen as, in Yeats's poetry and in popular lore, as Cuchulain, as a kind of avatar of the mythic Irish hero.
在叶芝的诗里皮尔斯被看作是,民间传说中,的英雄王库丘林,是爱尔兰神话里下凡的天神。
March seventeenth is Saint Patrick's Day, a time to celebrate Irish culture.
VOA: special.2009.03.16
This is Yeats in costume, costumed as a figure from Irish myth, as an ancient bard, mad King Goll, which is the furthest thing from a modern poet.
穿着奇装异服的叶芝,打扮成爱尔兰传说中的人物,过去的吟唱诗人,疯癫的郭尔王,他与这位现代诗人相隔甚远。
"Brooklyn" is about a young Irish girl named Eilis.
VOA: special.2010.01.01
It's for this second printing that Milton adds the headnote that you see here that now begins the poem: "In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drown'd in his Passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637."
在第二版中,他加上了眉批,你们现在都能看到:,“周一作者缅怀了一位,不幸于1637年在爱尔兰海上,溺水而亡的挚友“
When Irish voters approved the treaty earlier this month in a second referendum, he vowed to keep his word.
VOA: standard.2009.10.10
In a sense, the earlier poem, "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," transformed the Irish landscape into a place of myth, in the same way that the poem is describing the transformation of the trout into the girl.
从某个角度讲,这首早期诗歌,流浪者安古斯之歌“,把爱尔兰变成一块神秘之地,这和把鳟鱼变成少女的转变,是一样的描写手法。
Born into a wealthy Irish-Catholic family, Edward Kennedy had a passion for helping the poor, disabled and disadvantaged, as President Obama remembered.
VOA: standard.2009.08.29
King Goll is a mythical Irish ruler who goes mad in the heat of battle.
郭尔王是传说中的爱尔兰统治者,他在战斗激烈时发疯了。
and,in a bit of 'movie magic,' the film re-creates 1937 New York in and around a vintage theater on the Isle Of Man in the Irish Sea.
VOA: standard.2009.12.17
The man is not a real man, the man is a symbol; only this time, a symbol of the real, a symbol of the actual and local of the Irish race and the reality.
这个人不是真正的人而是象征;,只是这次是真实的象征,是爱尔兰民族本地的,和真实存在的象征。
Thank you,". Irish-born Brendan Gleeson won the Emmy for best actor in a miniseries or movie for his role as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm.
VOA: standard.2009.09.21
The Vatican says he had acted properly. Pope Benedict has spoken out publicly about the scandal in Ireland in a letter to the faithful in which he criticized Irish bishops for their handling of such cases.
VOA: standard.2010.03.28
At a press event with Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin, Clinton said the U.S.administration is in very active consultations with Israel over steps by the Jewish state that in her words "would demonstrate the requisite commitment" to the peace process.
VOA: standard.2010.03.16
They were later released. In 1981,Tehran authorities changed the name of the road running in front of the British embassy from Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street, after the Irish Republican Army member who died on a hunger strike in prison.
VOA: standard.2009.07.02
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