Irish Sea

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• People on both sides of the Irish Sea were killed and injured as a result of the Troubles.

  UK Parliament

• Immediately on taking power, they started to fire rockets: not only across the land border to UK-ruled Northern Ireland (the existence of which they regarded as wholly illegitimate), but even across the Irish Sea to England, Scotland, and Wales.

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• There are, for example, lots of little islands in the Irish Sea that seem to be uninhabitable.

  YaleCourses

• The water is pure unheated Irish Sea, with an average temperature in the immediate neighborhood of freezing.

  Academic text (2004)

• There's a guy who's trying to run 66 miles across the Irish Sea.

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• For relief from this dilemma, developers are looking for sites offshore, and they have been finding them, especially in the shallow, wind-swept waters of the Irish Sea and North Sea.

  Academic text (2004)

• "It is true that many sailed from the province of Ulster, part of a much larger flow which drew from the lowlands of Scotland, the north of England, and every side of the Irish Sea.

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• I am forced into the indignity of playing my own critic, Sham Blanderson, and paraphrasing the paragraph above: I stepped into the Irish Sea, which quickly numbed my foot.

  Academic text (2004)

• The road the Romans made traversed North Wales a little way inland, between the weather off the Irish Sea and the mountains of Gwynedd and Powys; past the copper and the lead that the travel-hungry Empire craved.

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• During our vacation, we took a ferry across the Irish Sea to visit Ireland.

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