Dáil Éireann

[ doil air-awn, -on; Irish dol-yuh-ey-ryuhn ]

/ ˌdɔɪl ˈɛər ɔn, -ɒn; Irish ˌdɒl yəˈeɪ ryən /

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noun

the lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.

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Also called Dail.

Compare Oireachtas.

Origin of Dáil Éireann

<Irish: assembly of Eire

Words nearby Dáil Éireann

Dahomey, dahoon, daibutsu, daiker, daikon, Dáil Éireann, dailies, daily, daily-breader, daily double, daily dozen

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How to use Dáil Éireann in a sentence

Experts say government insiders like Dail can bring enormous value to contractors even if they never contact their old agencies.
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Still, Dail acknowledges it is fair to ask why he was hired.
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He'd believed it safely put away in pleasant confinement until the Dail Committee went away.
Attention Saint Patrick|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
One of them was a ship builder and the other a manufacturer of precision machinery, elected to the Dail for no special reason.
Attention Saint Patrick|William Fitzgerald Jenkins

The chairman of the Dail Committee almost, but not quite, detonated like a fission bomb.
Attention Saint Patrick|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The two still-active members of the Dail Committee looked uncomfortably around them.
Attention Saint Patrick|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
At various spots on the shores of Etive they had camping places, and at Dail-an-eas they built for Deirdrê a sunny bower.
A Book of Myths|Jean Lang

British Dictionary definitions for Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann

Dil

/ (ˈdaːl ˈeːrɪn) /

noun

(in the Republic of Ireland) the lower chamber of parliamentSee also Oireachtas

Word Origin for Dáil Éireann

from Irish dáil assembly (from Old Irish dāl) + Éireann of Eire

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