1854 18 Nov. 1204/2 It is not true..that any large proportion of the land of Ireland has been alienated to non-Irish purchasers.
1996 M. T. Krause in A. R. Becker x. 78 The occurrence of Samhain and St. Martin's feast day on the same date could also explain the reverence of the Irish for a non-Irish saint who never set foot in Ireland.