(noun) a political principle or policy directed toward the incorporation of irredentas within the boundaries of their historically or ethnically related political unit / a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it
So once again the old crazy drums of irredentist territorial claims and ethnic autonomy are pounding in the jungle of the cities.
the dictator of the bantustan across the border that would someday like to engulf Botswana because they’re all Tswana after all, and there are five million of them under Mangope and only one million in Botswana. The Boers love Mangope’s irredentism and keep it pumped up.
Around the great conception of the Balkan Federation there swarmed hordes of secret agents, impresarios of irredentism