Package holidays in 1916: When popular words first appeared in the paper

As the Irish Examiner celebrates our 180th anniversary this week we looked through the archive to find some of today’s most popular words and find out when they were first used in the paper. You’ll be surprised and amazed at how early, and late, some words first appeared.

Package Holiday made its first appearance in 1916.

Vegan: 1971

One of the earliest appearances of vegan was in October 1971 when at the second meeting of the Association for Natural Health it was announced that the president of the American Vegan (Vegetarian) Association was set to visit Cork to give a lecture on health.