Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word EIRE

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Definitions of EIRE

1. The island of Ireland, consisting of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
2. (chieflydated) The Republic of Ireland.

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Examples of Using EIRE in a Sentence

• Like its English counterpart, the term Éire is used for both the island of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the sovereign state that governs 85% of the island's landmass.
• Ériu (Éire, and in the dative 'Éirinn', giving English 'Erin') seems to have won the argument, but the poets hold that all three were granted their wish, and thus 'Fódhla' is sometimes used as a literary name for Ireland, as is 'Banba'.
• September 30 – The film of Mise Éire, made by George Morrison for Gael Linn, is premiered to close the Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish language film.
• "Éirinn" is the dative case of the Irish word for Ireland, "Éire", genitive "Éireann", the dative being used in prepositional phrases such as "go hÉirinn" "to Ireland", "in Éirinn" "in Ireland", "ó Éirinn" "from Ireland".
• Mise Éire is a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse.
• There are six main, national branches of the Celtic League in the six Celtic countries, generally known by the Celtic language names of their countries: Ireland is known as Éire, Scotland as Alba, Wales as Cymru, Brittany as Breizh, Cornwall as Kernow and the Isle of Man as Mannin or Mann.
• Also in 2010, the 3-D ride Corkscrew Hill was replaced by Europe in the Air, which itself was replaced by a new VR action ride called Battle for Eire in 2018.
• 5 February – The film, Mise Éire, by George Morrison with music by Seán Ó Riada, had its Dublin première at the Regal Cinema following a 27 January première at Gweedore in County Donegal, the first feature-length Irish language film on general release.
• Irvine was replaced by Henry McCullough, who had been repatriated to Ireland while on an Eire Apparent tour, owing to visa problems.
• The British government finessed article 4 and ignored articles 2 and 3: if the Irish constitution said the name of the state in the national language was Éire, then that (written as "Eire") was what the British government would call it.
• The British government finessed article 4 and ignored articles 2 and 3: if the Irish constitution said the name of the state in the national language was Éire, then that (written as "Eire") was what the British government would call it.
• Gaelic is enforced in order to show that Eire is not one of the English-speaking nations; foreign games are frowned upon, the war censorship has been misapplied for anti-British purposes, anti-British feeling is fostered in school and by Church and State by a system of hereditary enemy indoctrination.
• Once a feared invasion of Éire by US troops stationed in Northern Ireland in 1942 failed to materialise, Ryan was dropped as a possible mission specialist in further covert Abwehr and Foreign Ministry plans and operations.
• Langton's swansong for the club was in 1950 when Éire Óg were defeated by Dicksboro in a replay of the championship decider.
• The 2022 Wicklow Senior Hurling Championship consists of seven clubs: Carnew Emmets, Glenealy, Kiltegan, St Patrick's Wicklow Town, Éire Og Greystones, Avondale and Bray Emmets (1952, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 Champions).
• He is a relative of the singer Sibéal Ní Chasaide who sang his composition Mise Eire at the official government commemorations of the 1916 Rising.
• Public or notable private war memorials by Lorimer include: Gullane; Bowden, Scottish Borders; Border Regiment Memorial in Carlisle Cathedral; Harrow School; 1st and 5th Battalions Royal Scots and RAMC memorials in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh; 90th Light Infantry in Perth; Arbroath Academy, Caddonfoot; Carnbee; Clackmannan; Currie; Gairloch, Gargunnock; Parliament House (advocates memorial) in Edinburgh; Selkirk; St Andrews; Garelochhead; Lake Dorian in North Macedonia; Alloa; Carlisle; Dirleton; Glenelg; Markinch; Merton College in Oxford; Newport, Monmouthshire; Pencaitland; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Urquhart; Westminster School; Wisley; Culross; Colinsburgh; Edinburgh City Chambers; Galston; Humbie; Inveresk; Lower Largo; Melrose, Scottish Borders; Newport-on-Tay; Penicuik; Spott; Kew Gardeners Memorial (St Lukes in Kew); Stenton; Whitekirk; Woolhampton; Kelso, Scottish Borders; GSWR memorials in Ayr and Glasgow; Strathblane; Colmonell; Paisley (with sculpture by Alice Meredith Williams); Queenstown, Eastern Cape in South Africa (with sculpture by Alice Meredith Williams); Waterford (Eire); Lerwick; Shetland.
• There are a number of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in and around Caragh (Éire Óg-Corrachoill CLG, Raheens GAA and Caragh GFC), and a ladies' Gaelic football team (Robert Emmets).
• Intermediate hurling followed for the next five years with occasional success when the scalps of Éire Óg, Glen Rovers, Blarney, Aghada and Milford were taken.
• After coaching every grade of Sixmilebridge team from juvenile to senior, he later had an unsuccessful tenure in charge of Nenagh Éire Óg.

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