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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The tragedy was that Northern Ireland (Scottish) Protestants thought themselves like the British. Northern Ireland (Irish) Catholics thought themselves like Eireans (proper Irish).
