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

Ireland may refer to:


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Former political entities

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  • Gaelic Ireland, the political order that existed in Ireland prior to the Norman invasion
  • Irish Free State, the name, from 1922 to 1937, 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

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Other derivatives

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Place names

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People named

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Other names

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References

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