IRISH FREE STATE OR EIRE
t I 0 rna emma or rn» mess ■ S j r ._"Thc Press" of Friday, Junu;aryl4. had on its cable page the head- • jj ne "Great Britain and Eire," and in !jde accompanying article, the name of !|"Eire" is usc< - 1 instead of the name [he "Irish Free State." I doubt whether thc cables are cor- ■ rcct in usin*j the name of "Eire" for 'Southern Ireland. In the "Irish • Times" of December 11. 1037. thc fol;lowing paragraph appeared. ■ Tiif Iri.-li represonlrtivo at Geneva has 'noti'i" 1 the that by the Constitu- ' Hon which came into rorcc on December ■« 1537, the Iri.-h Free State will be ' kno»n henceforth as Eire in Irish and a 5 Ireland in Knchsh. Presumably, therefore, unless the cables are to he printed in Gaelic, the name for Southern Ireland in English j s Ireland. Even if Mr cle Valcra is unsuccessful in getting a United Ireland, he das the satisfaction of "registering" the name of a part of his adopted coun(ry under the name of the whole. I ponder if he is ironic or merely naive „Yours, etc., G. S. L. JELLETT. ' January 20, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22308, 24 January 1938, Page 9
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