Citations:Eirean

Adjective: of Eire

 * 1944 December 31, C. A. Lejeune, "LONDON STEPS OUT: Premiere of Olivier's 'Henry V' Rated As Social Event" The New York Times p.X-3
 * "The Battle of Agincourt was fought on the Powerscourt estate in Ireland by 500 members of the Eirean Home Guard.
 * 1945 December 10, Sir William Jowett, "IRISH VOLUNTEERS AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT" Hansard HL Deb vol 138 c540
 * An Eireann member of the Forces can, however, elect to take his discharge here and stay here for good or proceed to Eire and return within the period of demobilization leave, that is eight weeks, and then remain.
 * 1946 July 15, John Haire, "EIRE (WHEAT SUPPLIES)" Hansard HC Deb vol 425 cc142-3W
 * Flight-Lieutenant Haire asked the Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs how much wheat is supplied monthly to Eire from British sources; and whether the Eireann Government have informed him of their intentions with regard to bread rationing.
 * 1947 June 13, George Oliver "NORTHERN IRELAND BILL" Hansard HC Deb vol 438 c1468
 * Clause 1 of this Bill enables the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make legislative provisions for hydro-electric, drainage, water and other schemes to be operated on both sides of the border in conjunction with the Eirean authorities.
 * 1948 May 4, Earl of Huntingdon, "VETERINARY SURGEONS BILL. [H.L."] Hansard HL Deb vol 155 cc632-3
 * The present practice is that a Committee consisting of three members of the Eire Veterinary Council (of whom one has to be a member of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons) together with two members of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, decide questions of breach of discipline by Irish or Eireann veterinary surgeons.
 * 1949 March 8, Ronald Ross "ROYAL NAVY'S 806TH SQUADRON STAGES STUNTS THAT STARTLE EVEN FIELD ATTENDANTS"  Hansard HC Deb vol 462 c1050
 * the Government as an employer prefer to employ those who are not ex-Service men, Eirean citizens who do not owe any allegiance to this country, while allowing the ex-Service man, because he has sacrificed his chance by joining up, to be left unemployed as a consequence.
 * 1956 November 14, Tudor Watkins, "Irish Republic (Agreement)" Hansard HC Deb vol 560 c940
 * Mr. Watkins asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what consultations he has had with the Welsh Advisory Council for Civil Aviation on the recent Anglo-Eireann Agreement.
 * 1957 "Lifeboats and Lifesaving", Encyclopaedia Brittanica vol.14 p.26:
 * Since Eire was a neutral country the Air Force could not place its own rescue-launches on her coasts, but the life-boats in Eire were part of the single life-boat fleet of the British Isles, and the Institution was able, with the consent of the Eirean Government, to do what the Air Ministry asked of it.
 * 1967 November 30, James Hamilton [later Duke of Abercorn] "NORTHERN IRELAND (MEAT INDUSTRY)" Hansard HC Deb  vol 755 c797
 * At the outset I must make it plain that I have no objection to the principle of the Anglo-Eirean Free Trade Agreement. On the contrary, I am in favour of full co-operation with Eire in trade, commerce and tourism from which both countries can derive considerable economic advantage.
 * 1971 November 30, "EIREANN CITIZENS IN GREAT BRITAIN" Hansard HL Deb vol 326 cc140-2
 * 1972 October, Peter Fraser, "Review of Ireland since the Famine by F. S. L. Lyons", English Historical Review Vol. 87 No. 345 p. 839
 * Only occasionally may [the reader] be ruffled by the loaded terminology and cant phrases of the Eirean genre. The worst of these is 'the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy caste' which acts as a universal explanatory principle although in particular instances it seems to meet with nothing but contradiction.
 * 1972 February 24, Merlyn Rees "Northern Ireland" Hansard HC Deb  vol 831 c1473
 * Although timing is of the essence, will the Home Secretary bear in mind the helpful initiative taken by the Eirean Prime Minister at his party conference last weekend?
 * 1976 December 3, Michael Shaw "FISHERY LIMITS BILL" Hansard HC Deb vol 921 c1409
 * I should also like to know the Eirean Government's reaction to the suggestion that we should do the policing for them
 * 1976 December, National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, Disorders and Terrorism: Report of the Task Force on Disorders and Terrorism p.12
 * This approach was adopted by the Eirean authorities when Dutch businessman Tiede Herrema was kidnaped and by the Netherlands authorities when South Moluccan terrorists hijacked a train and occupied the Indonesian consulate.
 * 1980, J. Clement Jones "11. IRELAND" Mass media codes of ethics and councils: a comparative international study on professional standards (UNESCO, ISBN 92-3-101715-2) p.25
 * There is no seperate [sic] journalists’ organization for Ireland, though the Eirean newspaper proprietors have their own protective society.
 * 1982  December 16, "NORTHERN IRELAND RESIDENTS AND EIREAN PASSPORTS" Hansard HL Deb  vol 437 c834WA

Noun: citizen of Eire

 * 1945 November 30, St. John Ervine, letter to The Spectator:
 * Adjectives become missiles when used by an Eirean. The word “elegant,” for instance, is used by Mr. O'Casey as if it were a synonym for unmentionable crimes. It is applied to every non-Eirean he mentions.
 * 1956 Henry Longhurst, "Will I Give Ye the Daylight"; reprinted in The best of Henry Longhurst: on golf and life (1980, ISBN 0-00-635860-8) (London: Fontana) p.104
 * This gave considerable offence at Portmarnock, and my last memory of that hospitable club is of being penned in against the wall by a ring of outraged Eireans busy celebrating an Ulsterman's success in the championship.
 * 1956 July 21, "Was Ulster Right?" The Economist p.215:
 * As things are, Ulstermen are being kept more successfully in Ulster than Eireans are being kept in Eire.
 * 1988 Dennis Kennedy The widening gulf: northern attitudes to the independent Irish state, 1919-49 (Belfast: Blackstaff) ISBN 0856403962 p.231:
 * St John Ervine, the North's most noted writer during the period and the biographer of Craigavon, invented the term 'Eireans' to describe the citizens of Eire, rather than concede the term Irish.
 * 1996 Robert McLiam Wilson Eureka Street p.163 (Arcade [1997], ISBN 9781559703963)
 * The tragedy was that Northern Ireland (Scottish) Protestants thought themselves like the British. Northern Ireland (Irish) Catholics thought themselves like Eireans (proper Irish).