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Look up Ireland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Ireland may also refer to:
Polities currently located on Ireland
edit- Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state
- Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom
Former political arrangements of Ireland
edit- Gaelic Ireland, the political order that existed in Ireland before the Norman invasion
- Lordship of Ireland, a nominally all-island state created in the wake of the Norman invasion of the east coast of Ireland in 1169
- Kingdom of Ireland, a state from 1541 to 1800, in personal union with England and Scotland
- Confederate Ireland (1642–1649), an Irish government that controlled about two thirds of Ireland during the Commonwealth (or Interregnum)
- Irish Republic (1798), a short-lived French client republic proclaimed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Ireland (1801–1921), a constituent country of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1921
- Irish Republic (1916), a short-lived unrecognised independent state that existed in parts of Dublin during Easter Week
- Irish Republic, an unrecognised independent state declared between 1919 and 1922
- Southern Ireland (1921–22), a constituent country of the United Kingdom from 1921 to 1922, established on the same day as Northern Ireland
- Irish Free State, a dominion from 1922 to 1937, comprising briefly all of Ireland and thereafter 26 of the island's 32 counties, ending when the state adopted the name "Ireland" in December 1937
Other places
edit- Ireland Island, Bermuda
- Ireland, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Ireland, Bedfordshire, England
- Ireland Wood, West Yorkshire, England
- Ireland, Indiana, United States
- Ireland, Texas, United States
- Ireland, West Virginia, United States
- New Ireland (island), Papua New Guinea
- New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
- Island of Ireland, part of the failed World Islands development in Dubai
People
edit- Ireland Baldwin (born 1995), American fashion model
- Ireland (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
Other uses
edit- Justice Ireland (disambiguation)
- RMS Empress of Ireland, an ocean liner that sank in May 1914 after a collision
- United Ireland, a current political movement