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True colour image of Ireland, captured by a NASA satellite on 4 January 2003, with the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Irish Sea to the east.

Ireland commonly refers to:

• Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe, on which are located:
  • Republic of Ireland, a present-day state, consisting of most of the island, called Ireland in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland
  • Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom, consisting of the north-eastern sixth of the island

The island has formerly been subject to a number of political arrangements (arranged in reverse chronological order):

• 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
• 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 of which Ireland formed a part between 1801 and 1922
• 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
• Gaelic Ireland, the political order that existed in Ireland prior to the Norman invasion

[edit] Irish Ireland

See also: Names of the Irish state

• Éire
• Irish (disambiguation)

[edit] Other derivatives

[edit] Place names

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

[edit] People named

• 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 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, a Republic of Ireland Association footballer
• William Henry Ireland, a forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays

[edit] Other names

• RMS Empress of Ireland which sank in 1914 with a loss of 1012 lives

[edit] References

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