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Eire

[ air-uh, ahy-ruh, air-ee, ahy-ree ]

noun

  1. the Irish name of Ireland.
  2. a former name (1937–49) of the Republic of Ireland.


Eire

/ ˈɛərə /

noun

  1. the Irish Gaelic name for Ireland
  2. a former official name (1937–49) for Republic of Ireland


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Carlos Eire follows up his National Book Award-winning memoir with his years as an American refugee boy.

Eire did not so much make, as voice, the opinions of a considerable section of Irish Nationalist opinion.

In front of the regiment were the famous Eire Zouaves, no longer guided and controlled by the master genius of Ellsworth.

Half an hour later the president told the solicitor general of Eire about it.

President O'Hanrahan of the planetary government of Eire listened unhappily to his official guest.

But once a month was shoot-a-diny day on Eire, and the populace turned out to clear the environs of their city of Tara.

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