Ireland (disambiguation)

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Location of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Ireland may also refer to:

Polities currently located on Ireland[edit]

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

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