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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.
Hence, the Ireland Act formally provided the name Republic of Ireland for use instead of the name Eire in British law. Later the name Eire was abolished entirely in British law under the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981. [72] This has meant that the Republic of Ireland is the only name for the Irish state officially provided for in domestic UK law.
The 1948 Act does not name the state "Republic of Ireland", because to have done so would have put it in conflict with the Constitution. [24] The government of the United Kingdom used the name "Eire" (without the diacritic) and, from 1949, "Republic of Ireland", for the state. [25]
The names Ireland and Éire derive from Old Irish Ériu, a goddess in Irish mythology first recorded in the ninth century. The etymology of Ériu is disputed but may derive from the Proto-Indo-European root * h2uer, referring to flowing water. [17]
The name of Ireland itself comes from the Irish name Éire, added to the Germanic word land. In mythology , Éire was an Irish goddess of the land and of sovereignty (see Ériu ). In some cases, the official English or anglicised name is wholly different from the official Irish language name.
Darragh is a top 50 boys’ name in Ireland. The name means “oak tree.” Dervla — This ancient and still well-used Irish name, which means “daughter of the poet,” has not appeared in the ...
There are a number of alternative names for Northern Ireland. [1] Northern Ireland consists of six historic counties of Ireland, and remains part of the United Kingdom following the independence of the other twenty-six counties as the Irish Free State in 1922 (now the Republic of Ireland, officially named "Ireland").
Trinity College Dublin names its Brutalist library after Irish female poet Eavan Boland, the first building named after a woman in the famous university’s 433 years.