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True-colour satellite image of Ireland, known in Irish as Éire.. Éire (Irish: [ˈeːɾʲə] ⓘ) is the Irish language name for "Ireland". 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.
"Ireland includes Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Irish Government means the one in Dublin. Use Irish Republic or the Republic according to context, but not Eire." [103] The Economist "Ireland is simply Ireland. Although it is a republic, it is not the Republic of Ireland. Neither is it, in English, Eire." [104] BBC Radio
In Northern Ireland, English is the de facto official language, but official recognition is afforded to Irish, including specific protective measures under Part III of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
As such, its meaning is contextual on the meaning of "Ireland" being used: it can relate both to the Irish state, and to the island of Ireland. Northern Ireland , as a constituent part of the United Kingdom , can thus be both British or Irish , reflected in the ability for residents of Northern Ireland to take either British or Irish ...
boreen – (from bóithrín meaning "small road") a narrow rural road in Ireland. brat – a cloak or overall; now only in regional dialects (from Old Irish bratt meaning "cloak, cloth") brehon – A judge of ancient Irish law. From Irish breitheamh. brogue – (from bróg meaning "shoe") a type of shoe (OED).
Others exist in portmanteau with words of Irish or English origin, such as Castletownroche, which combines the English Castletown and the French Roche, meaning rock. Most widespread is the term Pallas (from Norman paleis , "boundary fence") which appears in over 20 place names, including the towns Pallasgreen and Pallaskenry . [ 19 ]
This replaced the Constitution of the Irish Free State and declared that the name of the state is Éire, or "Ireland" in the English language. [46] While Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution defined the national territory to be the whole island, they also confined the state's jurisdiction to the area that had been the Irish Free State.
Poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists used Erin in English as a romantic name for Ireland. [2] Often, "Erin's Isle" was used. In this context, along with Hibernia , Erin is the name given to the female personification of Ireland, but the name was rarely used as a given name, probably because no saints , queens, or literary figures ...