Ireland (disambiguation)
Ireland commonly refers to:
- Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe, and the countries located on it:
- Ireland (also Éire, when writing in Irish), a sovereign state that comprises most of the island, legally described as the Republic of Ireland
- Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom that comprises the north-eastern sixth of the island
The island was formerly subject to a number of political arrangements (arranged in reverse chronological order):
- Irish Free State, the name, from 1922 to 1937, of the dominion comprising briefly all of Ireland and thereafter 26 of the island's 32 counties
- Irish Republic, an unrecognised independent state declared between 1919 and 1922
- Southern Ireland, the name, from 1921 to 1922, of a 26-county constituent country of the United Kingdom established on same day as Northern Ireland
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the name of the state of which Ireland formed a part between 1801 and 1922
- Kingdom of Ireland, the name given to the Irish state from 1541 to 1801
- 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
- Gaelic Ireland, the political order that existed in Ireland prior to the Norman invasion
Irish Ireland
Other derivatives
Place names
People
- Alexander Ireland (1901–1966), British boxer
- Andy Ireland (born 1930), American politician
- Anthony Ireland (born 1984), Zimbabwean cricketer
- Betty Ireland (born 1946), American politician
- Billy Ireland (1880–1935), American cartoonist
- Brian Ireland (born 1980), American drummer for Something Corporate
- Colin Ireland (born 1954), British serial killer known as the "Gay Slayer"
- Danny Ireland (born 1990), Australian football player
- David Ireland:
- Doug Ireland (born 1946), American journalist
- Innes Ireland (1930–1993), Scottish race car driver
- Jake Ireland (born 1946), Canadian football referee
- Jeff Ireland, American football administrator
- Jill Ireland (1936–1990), English actress
- John Ireland:
- Kathy Ireland (born 1963), American model, actress, author, and entrepreneur
- Kenny Ireland (born 1947), Scottish director and actor
- Kylie Ireland (born 1970), American pornographic actress and radio show host
- Marin Ireland, American actress
- Mike Ireland (born 1974), Canadian speed skater
- Patricia Ireland (born 1945), American feminist and administrator
- Samuel Ireland (1744–1800), British author
- Stephen Ireland (born 1986), Irish footballer
- Tim Ireland (born 1953), American baseball player
- Walter Ireland (1923–2010), American politician
- William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), English forger of Shakespearean documents and plays
Other names
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