Irish Republic

Dublin's home country

The Irish Republic was the revolutionary state declared by Irish nationalists in 1916 and established by the First Dáil in 1919, claiming sovereignty over the entire island of Ireland.

It operated as an unrecognized government during the Irish War of Independence until the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

The term is sometimes used loosely for the modern Republic of Ireland, though that state dates from 1949.

nation

Dublin

Irish capital city

  • EireIsland nation's native name
  • LiffeyDublin's principal river
  • ShannonIrish river or name

Leinster · Munster · EU member · tricolour · harp · St. Patrick · hurling · Cork · Galway · Waterford

independence

Easter Rising

Irish anti-British insurrection, 1916

  • 1916World War One's middle
  • Sinn FéinIrish republican political party
  • IRATax-advantaged retirement fund

Michael Collins · Civil War · Home Rule · 1922 · Fenians · guerrilla warfare · insurgents · insurrection · Free State · sovereignty

Celtic

Gaelic

Celtic linguistic tradition

Druids · Samhain · Beltane · Claddagh · Gael · Hibernia · high kings · Book of Kells

history

potato famine

Agricultural disaster causing starvation

Cromwell · diaspora · Troubles · Good Friday Agreement · workhouse · land reform

culture

Riverdance

Irish step stage show

Beckett · leprechaun · fiddle · bodhrán · Guinness · craic · pub · trad · tweed · Claddagh ring

emerald

green

Color of vegetation

pasture · glen · meadow · rolling hills · countryside · landscape · Connemara · Wild Atlantic Way · Killarney · greenery

Opposites
political partition of ireland

Irish RepublicNorthern Ireland

UK territory sharing island

Ulster

relationship to british sovereignty

Irish RepublicUnited Kingdom

Atlantic archipelago nation

Great Britain · Britain · constitutional monarchy · British Empire · England

constitutional structure

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Atlantic archipelago nation

constitutional monarchy · monarchy

Family

Irish, Republic, Ireland, Irishman, Irishwoman, republican, republicanism, republics

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