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No. 314 NAI DT S10467A

Memorandum by the Department of the Taoiseach
'Instructions regarding the use of the name of the state and other related matters'

Dublin, 21 April 1947

    • Whenever the name of the State is mentioned in any official document or communication in the English language, the word 'Ireland', and not 'Éire', should be used.
    • In any case in which the use of the word 'Ireland' is open to ambiguity, e.g., in statistical returns, either the expression 'Ireland (exclusive of the Six North-Eastern Counties)' or the word 'Ireland' with a footnote reading 'Exclusive of the Six North-Eastern Counties' should be used, instead.
    • The official crest used on stationery and publications will in future comprise the harp only. The Stationery Office will arrange that, in future printings and embossings of official stationery, the word 'Éire' will be omitted from the crest; all existing stocks of stationery bearing the present crest should, however, be used up in the ordinary way.
    • The name of the State should not appear, in either Irish or English, as a heading on Acts, on Statutory Rules and Orders and other statutory instruments, or on press advertisements, notices or posters.
    • In any case in which it is the existing practice of a Department to use a Departmental crest as a heading for advertisements, etc. (e.g., the Department of Defence), the practice may, of course, be continued.
    • Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders and, wherever appropriate, printed reports, White Papers and other similar printed documents, whether in Irish or in English, or in both languages, should bear the official crest in an upper central position on the cover, and should not bear the words 'Éire' or 'Ireland' as a heading.
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