Ireland (disambiguation)

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Map of the island of Ireland showing the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Map of the island of Ireland showing the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Ireland may refer to:

  • Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe, on which are located:
    • Republic of Ireland, a present-day state, consisting of most of the island
    • Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, consisting of the north-eastern one sixth of the island

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Former political entities

  • Gaelic Ireland, the political order that existed in Ireland prior to the Norman invasion
  • Irish Free State, the name of the state comprising 26 of Ireland's 32 counties
  • Irish Republic, the unilaterally declared independent state between 1919 and 1922, also sometimes wrongly used to describe the current state
  • Kingdom of Ireland, the name given to the Irish state from 1541, by an act of the Parliament of Ireland
  • Lordship of Ireland, a nominally all-island Irish state created in the wake of the Norman invasion of the east coast of Ireland in 1169
  • Southern Ireland, the 26-county Irish state envisaged by the Government of Ireland Act 1920
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the name of the state that Ireland formed part of between 1801 and 1922

Irish Ireland

See also: Names of the Irish state


Other derivatives

Place names

People named

Other names

See also

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