Irish people vs country

Irish people and country both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Irish people	Yes	No	No	No
country	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, country is a hypernym of Irish people; that is, country is a word with a broader meaning than Irish people:

Other hypernyms of Irish people include land, nation.

Irish people (noun)	country (noun)
people of Ireland or of Irish extraction	a politically organized body of people under a single government
	the people who live in a nation or country
	the territory occupied by a nation
	an area outside of cities and towns
	a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)