单词 | noraid |
释义 | Noraidn. An organization whose principal purpose is to raise funds for Northern Irish Republican causes among sympathizers abroad, esp. in the United States. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations levellers1762 Hearts of Steel1771 Peep o' Day Boys1780 Rightboys1786 Brunswick Club1828 Orange Order1828 Young Ireland1843 Land league1881 U.I.L.1901 Noraid1974 U.U.U.C.1974 INLA1979 1971 N.Y. Times 20 Oct. 8/1 The Times of London..quoted Toomas Enright of the United States-based Irish Northern Aid Committee as denying that the arms shipped on the Queen Elizabeth 2 came from the committee.] 1974 Irish Times 28 Sept. 8/4 A tiny minority of Irish Americans..has been misled into subscribing on a significant scale to I.R.A. front organisations like Noraid. 1984 Newsweek 27 Aug. 49/2 In New York NORAID director Michael Flannery said ‘It was a plus for us.’ 1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men xxviii. 221 I hate Noraid anyway, but I especially hate Australians who work for Noraid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1974 |
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