Possible Clues:

• Antebellum Kansas, notably
• No longer bound to be here
• Ireland might have had a 9 and 1 across
• Not bound to be as Eire was
• Not bound to be Eire was
• Former condition of Ireland
• Not bound to be as Ireland was
• What this here was
• If's what Eire was, initially
• Not bound to be as Eire used to be