Talk:Eyre
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Previously Eyre redirected to Éire. I have made it redirect here as I have never seen Eyre used to mean Éire. Really the redirection now needs to be reversed since Eyre should be the default name. Joestynes 18:13, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I (tried to) add "Chris Eyre" to the list of people named Eyre, since there is a "Chris Eyre" entry in Wikipedia referring to the Native American filmmaker. That's not me, by the way: My name is also Chris Eyre (there seem to be quite a few of us), though I've yet to achieve any degree of fame--or otherwise--to merit an entry in Wikipedia. The whole Eyre-Eire(-and Eyre in Scotland) is an interesting subject. Eire, an old spelling for Ireland, does seem entirely unrelated to the (English) Eyre surname that appears so frequently around Derbyshire, for example. There are places in Scotland (on the Isles of Skye and Raasay) named Eyre, yet it's not clear to me that these are related to the Eyre surname in England. I ran into an old gent on Raasay (where Eyre is pronounced I-er) living near Eyre Point who said that he thought the word came from an old Norse or Danish word for "island." In England, Eyre is pronounced "air," as it is when referring to "Eyre Square" in Galway, west Ireland, though I suspect Eyre Square is named after some English administrator posted to Ireland at some point.
