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When I was a very young child I was sat down and educated, in a nice way, by my republican grandfather. I had written an address on an envelope incorrectly, I wrote Eire which I thought was the name of the country in Irish! It wasn't!

You see *Éire* was the name of the county in 1937. Do you see that fada over the capital É? It turns the Irish word for 'Burden' [Eire] into the Irish word for Ireland [Éire]. Where would you want to send a letter to? Ireland or Burden! I never made that mistake again!

As I grew older I learnt more about Irish history, that the British government since the Eire Act 1938 would refer to the Irish Free State as "Eire", not Éire, nor Ireland. This only changed after the crown was removed from Irish politics and it was finally written into British law in the Ireland Act of 1949, thereafter English law would use the "Republic of Ireland". Éire is now considered outdated in Ireland and instead, we use the genitive case of Éireann, as in Poblacht an hÉireann (*The Republic of Ireland).

*Another mistake is Southern Ireland. That is what the British wanted to call Ireland when they first also conceived of Northern Ireland too, it was only used by British politicians for a very short period of history (literally a year). It was changed to the Irish Free State, Éire and finally the Republic of Ireland through struggle.

Northern Ireland might make visitors think that the Republic of Ireland is located to the south of it, but it is not. Malin Head is the most northerly point in Ireland, and it is located in the Republic of Ireland, to the North of Northern Ireland.

Ireland has been divided up into four provinces since 1610, those provinces being Ulster (North), Munster (South), Leinster (East) Connacht (West). Interesting fact, the Irish word for provinces is *cúige, *meaning Five. Meath was the lost fifth province.

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in 1839 – John B. Yeats, painter and father of William Butler and Jack B. Yeats, was born in Tullylish, Co Down.

He is probably best known for his portrait of the young William Butler Yeats which is one of a number of his portraits of Irishmen and women in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland. His portrait of John O’Leary (1904) is considered his masterpiece (Raymond Keaveney 2002).

His parents were William Butler Yeats (1806–1862) and Jane Grace Corbert, John Butler Yeats was the eldest of nine children. Educated in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the University Philosophical Society, John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. There are few records of his sales, so there is no catalogue of his work in private collections. It is possible that some of his early work may have been destroyed by fire in World War II. It is clear that he had no trouble getting commissions as his sketches and oils are found in private homes in Ireland, England and America. His later portraits show great sensitivity to the sitter. However, he was a poor businessman and was never financially secure. He moved house frequently and shifted several times between England and Ireland. At the age of 69 he moved to New York, where he was friendly with members of the Ashcan School of painters. He is buried in Chestertown Rural Cemetery in Chestertown, New York, next to his friend, Jeanne Robert Foster.

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in 1917 – Fifty-two year old William Butler Yeats finally gets married, but not to Maud Gonne, the love of his life.

Instead he marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892–1968). Although only weeks previously, Yeats had proposed to Maud Gonne’s daughter Iseult MacBride from her marriage to John MacBride, the marriage of Yeats and Hyde-Lees was a happy one producing two children.

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