Related Clues:

• Short time to meet Irish
• Not at all talkative
• Sounds blunt chopping trees
• Monosyllabic, perhaps
• Like one-word answers
• Brief winter season — victory a boy delivered
• Trees (anag.)
• For Easter, not getting a break, in short
• 'Brief Encounter''s eternal embraces
• Blunt Tory leader's language
• Initial time for Irish Gaelic is short
• Sharp tongue on Tory leader
• The leader from Ireland is anything but verbose
• During the winter season it's short
• Irish following Troubles, initially laconic