I wonder whether there is an adjective governing the word Eire. We have been listening to the Prime Minister and the hon. Member above the Gangway and the hon. Member for Down (Sir D. Reid) and I hoped that I should hear an adjective corresponding to the word Eire. I do not know whether I should be in order if I said Eirish.

He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.

Shall I give you some money now for the swatches? asked Mrs. Flynn. / What's a swatch? Sophie asked suddenly. / A swatch, said Zoey, is a little sample of fabric that people use to pick and choose what will work for them without having to buy a whole yard. And fabric swatches are free! So don't worry.

It's true, Vanya now, look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of deduction — ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer — all these novels, these films and songs and they lull us with, they're approaches, more comfortable and less so, to that Absolute Comfort. A pause to allow Rudi a quick and sour grin, The self-induced orgasm.