Eirish

1952 Standard Irish vocabulary: an English-Eirish vocabulary containing about 2,000 of the most useful Irish words, and including the basic English vocabulary (Eirish Society: Dublin)

I wonder whether there is an adjective governing the word "Eire." We have been listening to the Prime Minister and the hon. Member above the Gangway and the hon. Member for Down (Sir D. Reid) and I hoped that I should hear an adjective corresponding to the word "Eire." I do not know whether I should be in order if I said "Eirish."

So far as the appointment of Consuls or even Ministers is concerned, His Majesty holds the same position for Eire as he does for Canada or South Africa. The only variance is that in the Eirish Act "King" is spelt with a small "k."

The Board must realise that we may not be able to obtain satisfaction, as the question of Eirish neutrality raises political issues which have not yet been faced, and which the First Lord is not certain he can solve.

It happened that in a talk for the Overseas Service he referred to Dublin as 'the Irish capital'. The disc had been played by mistake on the Home Service and so [George] Marshall had heard it. Johnston parried Marshall’s complaint by asserting that what he really said was 'It is the Eirish capital'!

It is Mr Roosevelt’s first really stupid mistake. The Eirish leader, with all Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, behind him, Mr de Valera will tell the President, in fact, to go to hell.

Section 2 provides a solution for these difficulties, and those malicious newspapers who want to refer in derogatory tones to this country as "Éire" and who have coined these contemptuous adjectives about it, such as "Eireannish" and "Eirish", and all the rest of it, will have to conform to the legal direction here in this Bill.

I know, of course, that a lot of people nowadays are all against the truth - they want a censorship - in the Spanish or Eirish style - they would like to shut up the free Press altogether.