Citations:Eirean

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English citations of Eirean, Eireann, and Eireans

Adjective: of Eire

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