Eire
Americannoun
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the Irish Gaelic name for Ireland
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a former official name (1937–49) for Republic of Ireland
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But overnight, Williams gave birth to a girl they named Eire.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022
On its Facebook page, Clogher Eire Ogs club said it had received communication from the Finnegan family following the crash.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2021
The departure of Eire, the decades long counter-insurgency in Ulster, resurgent Scottish and Welsh nationalism, all inconvenient, all ignored.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019
Writing about an obscure Irish republican from Queens seemed perfect for Mr. Shevlin, whose pickup truck bears a license plate that reads “EIRE 1916” — Eire being the name for Ireland in the Irish language.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2016
Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight gray; Though hope fall from you and love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.
From The Wind Among the Reeds by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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