adjective 1.having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
2.pertaining to or designating the style of
art, especially of manuscript illumination, developed principally during the 7th and 8th centuries a.d. in the monastic scriptoria founded by Irish missionaries, characterized chiefly by the use of zoomorphic forms elaborated in interlaced patterns and often
set within a symmetrically balanced framework of geometric
shapes; Anglo-Irish.
Origin: 1935–40; Hiberno- combining form of
Hibernian