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‖ Oireachtas|ˈɛrəxtəs|
[Ir., = assembly, gathering, convocation.]
1. The assembly and festival held annually by the Gaelic League of Ireland, a gathering similar in concept to the Welsh eisteddfod and Scottish mod. Also attrib.
1902W. B. Yeats Let. 20 Jan. (1954) 364 Royalties..I shall ask A. P. Watt to send.. to the Sec. of Gaelic League, Dublin. Do you think I should specify the purpose? Say an Oireachtas prize. 1910Encycl. Brit. V. 616/1 In 1898 it was decided to hold a festival called the Oireachtas (‘hosting, gathering’) on the lines of the Welsh Eisteddfod. 1911W. H. G. Flood Story of Bagpipe xx. 164 The Mod is somewhat analogous to the Oireachtas in Ireland. 1913Irishman Feb. 4/1 The keynote of this Oireachtas must be that Irish shall be plainly and unmistakeably the dominant language. 1971Daily Tel. 5 Aug. 10/3 Prominent among the tents on the field for the first time this year is one representing Eire's equivalent of the Eisteddfod—the Oireachtas, to be held in October.
2. The legislature or parliament of the Republic of Ireland, consisting of the president and two houses, a house of representatives (Dáil Éireann) the members of which are elected by proportional representation, and a partially nominated senate (Seanad Éireann).
In quot. 1947 An t-Oireachtas is the regular Irish form that includes the definite article.
1922Daily Mail 4 Dec. 9 The Provisional Government will be out of office by Wednesday, and the Oireachtas, as the Free State Parliament will be known, will come into being, consisting of Seanad Eireann (Upper House), comprised of 60 senators, 30 of whom will be nominated by the Government, and the remainder by the elected deputies of the people, who will sit as a Lower House, under the name of Dail Eireann. 1923W. B. Yeats Senate Speeches (1961) 53 A joint committee of both houses to consider how suitable accommodations for Oireachtas may be obtained. 1930G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island Pref., in Works XI. 72 The Northern Parliament will not merge into the Oireachtas. 1938Ireland: Citizen's Manual 27 The Oireachtas may not enact a law repugnant to the Constitution nor declare acts to be unlawful after their commission. 1947S. Malone Notes Procedure Oireachtas p. vii, The National Parliament (An tOireachtas) consisting of the President and two Houses. 1969Henig & Pinder European Pol. Parties xi. 447 To win an election was, and is, to win the right to a virtual monopoly of legislative and policy initiative and the power to manage and control the Oireachtas (Parliament). 1975Irish Times 9 May 8/1 Mr. Lynch said that there had been a tradition among the staff of the Oireachtas that if there was to be any easement of Standing Orders, that easement would be given in favour of the Opposition. 1977Cork Examiner 6 June 2/8 Ever since it has been bandied about both in accusation and refutation on the subsequent occasions of the passage of an electoral Bill through the Oireachtas. |