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{{also|eire|Eire|Eiré}}
==English==

===Proper noun===
{{en-prop}}

# {{altsp|en|Eire}}.
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Thomas E. Hachey; Joseph M. Hernon, Jr.; Lawrence J. McCaffrey|chapter=The de Valera Era, 1932–1959: Continuity and Change in Irish Life|title=The Irish Experience|location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J.|publisher=w:Prentice Hall|year=1989|section=section “The Irish Republic, 1948–1959”|page=217|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/irishexperience0000hach/page/217/mode/1up?view=theater|isbn=0-13-506115-6|passage=British subjects in '''Éire''' could not vote, hold public office, or work in the government service of '''Éire''', whereas '''Éire''' citizens in Britain could do all of these.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Gavin Hughes|chapter=Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944–1945|editors=Gerald Morgan; Gavin Hughes|title=Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France: New Perspectives|series=Reimagining Ireland|seriesvolume=volume 33|publisher=[[w:Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]]|year=2011|page=85|isbn=978-3-0343-0190-9|issn=1662-9094|passage=In the light of modern scholarship it now seems highly likely that the total recruitment figure for both Northern Irish and '''Éire''' citizens in the British Armed Forces stood at around 100–120,000 men and women.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Wendy Webster|chapter=Introduction: ‘The Big Proposition’|title=Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain|publisher=w:Oxford University Press|year=2018|page=9|isbn=978-0-19-873576-2|lccn=2017950133|passage=Since '''Éire''' remained in the Commonwealth during the war—leaving in 1949—it could be argued that volunteers and war workers from '''Éire''' belong in this list. '''Éire''' was the only Commonwealth country to remain neutral throughout the war.}}

==Irish==
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===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|ga|Éirinn||CF|Waterford|formerly in Leinster}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|ga|sga|Ériu}}, probably, although the ''É'' is unexpected and unexplained, from {{inh|ga|cel-pro|*Φīweriyū}}.<ref>{{R:cel:Stuber:1998|95}}</ref><ref>{{R:cel:Zair:2012|page=107}}</ref>

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ga|/ˈeːɾʲə/}}
* {{audio|ga|Eire_pronunciation.ogg}}

===Proper noun===
{{ga-proper noun|f|Éireann}}

# {{place|ga|island|cont/Europe|t=Ireland}}
# {{place|ga|country|cont/Europe|t=Ireland}}

====Usage notes====
The definite article is used only in the genitive case. This is one of the few nouns in Irish with a distinct [[dative case]] in the standard language.

====Inflection====
{{ga-decl-f5-nopl|É|ire|ireann|dat=irinn|datoc=s}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|ga|Éireannach|t=Irish (person)}}
* {{l|ga|Saorstát Éireann}}
* {{l|ga|Éire go brách}}

===Mutation===
{{ga-mut}}

===References===
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