Ireland_(disambiguation)

Ireland may refer to:

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

Former political entities

• Irish Free State, the name of the state comprising 26 of Ireland\'s 32 counties
• Southern Ireland, the 26-county Irish state envisaged by the Government of Ireland Act 1920
• 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
  • King of Ireland, its ruler
• 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
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the name of the state that Ireland formed part of between 1801 and 1922

See also: Names of the Irish state

Other places

• Ireland Island, Bermuda, the northwesternmost island in the chain which comprises Bermuda
• Ireland, West Virginia, USA
• New Ireland, in Papua New Guinea
• Ireland (village), in Bedfordshire, England

People

• Alexander Ireland, a British welterweight professional boxer
• Andy Ireland, a US Representative from Florida
• Anthony Ireland, an ex-Zimbabwean cricketer
• Betty Ireland, the current Secretary of State of West Virginia
• Brian Ireland, the drummer for Something Corporate
• Colin Ireland, a British serial killer known as the "Gay Slayer" because he specifically murdered gay men
• Doug Ireland, an American journalist and blogger
• Innes Ireland, a Scottish military officer, engineer, and race car driver
• Jill Ireland, an English actress
• John Ireland:
  • John Ireland (politician), a Governor of Texas
  • John Ireland (archbishop), a university founder from St Paul, Minnesota
  • John Ireland (composer), an English composer
  • John Ireland (actor), an Academy Award-nominated actor and sometime film director
  • John Ireland (scientist), a Manhattan Project and World War II veteran
  • John Ireland (barrister), an Australian barrister
  • John de Courcy Ireland, an Irish maritime historian and political activist
• Kathy Ireland, an American supermodel, actress, author, and entrepreneur
• Kylie Ireland, an American pornographic actress and radio show host
• Mike Ireland, a long track speed skater
• Patricia Ireland, a U.S. administrator and feminist
• Stephen Ireland, an Irish footballer
• William Henry Ireland, a forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays

Other

• Empress of Ireland which sank in 1914 with a loss of 1012 lives.
• The Irish Republic (book), a history book by Dorothy Macardle

See also

• Irish (disambiguation)
• Éire

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