IRISH FREE STATE OR EIRE?
TO THB SUITOR Of TH« PRESS. Sir.—The paragraph which appeared in the "Irish Times," which said that the Irish representative at Geneva had been informed that in future the name of the Irish Free State in Irish was Eire and in English Ireland, was not. as Mr Ascheson suggests, a cabled report from Geneva. The paragraph was printed in the "Irish Times" as a special item of news. It was marked by heavy black lines and the type was larger and blacker than the rest of the print. It seems that Mr de Valera wishes to be as ambiguous about the name of Southern Ireland as he is in his attitude towards England. The Constitu-
tion gives the name for the whole of Ireland as Eire. The League of Nations and thereby the world are told that Eire is Irish for the Irish Free State. What Ireland is Mr de Valera referring to when he allows the Constitution to state that,"the national territory consists of the whole of Ireland, its islands, and the territorial seas"? As usual a purposeful vagueness seems to be Mr de Valera's policy.— Yours, etc., G. S. L. JELLETT. January 24, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22310, 26 January 1938, Page 6
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