Country

Ireland

Also Known As Republic of Ireland

Northern Europe

Ireland is a country in Northwestern Europe consisting of twenty-six of the thirty-two counties of the island of Ireland, sharing its only land border with Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom. The Irish Free State was established in 1922, and the state was formally declared a Republic in 1949. It is a unitary parliamentary republic. Its capital is Dublin. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Capital

Dublin 2

Population

5,458,600 2

April 2025 estimate, from Ireland's own Wikipedia infobox.

Population Estimate Year

2025 2

Area (sq km)

70,273 2

Independence or Founding Year

1922 2

The Irish Free State was established on 6 December 1922, ending direct United Kingdom rule over what is now the Republic; a new constitution was adopted in 1937, and the state was formally declared a Republic on 18 April 1949.

Classification

Sovereignty Status

UN Member State 1

Ireland

Associated With

Cliffs of Moher

The Cliffs of Moher are in County Clare, Ireland.

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County Dublin

County Dublin is associated with Ireland.

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Northern Europe

The British Isles

Ireland is one of the two large islands forming the British Isles.

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Western Europe

Bordered By Water

Celtic Sea

Has Capital

Dublin

Dublin is the capital of Ireland.

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Same As

Ireland

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Participant In

Wars of the Three Kingdoms

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Nationals Include

Erna Bennett

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Henry Walter Jack

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Eileen Gray

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Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish interior designer, furniture designer and architect who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.

Evie Hone

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George Bernard Shaw

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Mary Concepta Lynch

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Oscar Wilde

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Samuel Beckett

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Anne Condon

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Cornelius Lanczos

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February 2, 1893 – June 25, 1974) was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist.

Damien Coyle

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Kathleen McNulty

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12 February 1921 – 20 April 2006), known as Kay McNulty, was an Irish computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers.

Percy Ludgate

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Percy Edwin Ludgate (2 August 1883 – 16 October 1922) was an Irish amateur scientist who, in 1909, designed an analytical engine (a general-purpose Turing-complete computer, and the second of its kind).

Alwyn Williams

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Charles Lapworth

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Charles Wyville Thomson

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Francis Beaufort

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Sir Francis Beaufort ( BOH-fərt; 27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale.

George P. L. Walker

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Marjorie Sweeting

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William Henry Fitton

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David Manson (schoolmaster)

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Kieran Egan

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Kieran Egan (1942 – 12 May 2022) was an Irish educational philosopher and a student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history.

Brendan Greene

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Graham Norton

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is an Irish comedian, broadcaster, actor, and author

Herbert Brenon

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Jim Sheridan

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John Huston

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John Romero

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Neil Jordan

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Nora Twomey

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Patrick McGoohan

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Tomm Moore

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William Robinson

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William Robinson: (15 July 1838 – 12 May 1935) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement, and were important in promoting the woodland garden.

Adomnan of Iona

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Cearbhall O Dalaigh

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Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

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Conor Maguire

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Donal O'Donnell

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Frank Clarke

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Hugh Kennedy

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John L. Murray

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Liam Hamilton

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Ronan Keane

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Síofra O'Leary

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Susan Denham

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Thomas Finlay

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Timothy Sullivan

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Tom O'Higgins

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Úna Ní Raifeartaigh

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William FitzGerald

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Origin Of

Eileen Gray

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Mary Concepta Lynch

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Bloody Sunday (film)

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Father Mother Sister Brother

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In the Name of the Father

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Michael Collins

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Song of the Sea

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The Breadwinner (2017 film)

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The film was an international co-production between Canada, the Republic of Ireland and Luxembourg.

The Magdalene Sisters

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The Secret of Kells

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)

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Breakfast Roll

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Chicken fillet roll

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Coddle

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Croffle

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Full Breakfast

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Ginger Ale

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Irish Coffee

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Irish Cuisine

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Irish Stew

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Poitín

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Whisky

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Ernest Shackleton

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Ogham

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Aisling

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Dindsenchas

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is a class of onomastic text in early Irish literature

Echtra

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Immram

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Irish Bardic Poetry

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Irish Literary Revival

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Locked-Room Mystery

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Táin Bó

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Urban Gothic

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Brian O'Connor

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Clare Mac Cumhaill

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Clare Mac Cumhaill is an Irish philosopher and historian.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism.

Elizabeth Anscombe

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Frances Power Cobbe

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Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner.

George Berkeley

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George Berkeley ( BARK-lee; 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of immaterialism, a philosophical theory he developed which later came to be known as subjective idealism.

John M. Dillon

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John Myles Dillon (; born 15 September 1939) is an Irish classicist and philosopher who was Regius Professor of Greek in Trinity College, Dublin between 1980 and 2006.

Niall Keane

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Niall Keane is an Irish philosopher and senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of the West of England.

Handfasting

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The terminology and practice are associated with several medieval and early modern European contexts, including Ireland, Scotland, England, and Germanic-speaking regions.

McKenzie friend

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A McKenzie friend assists a litigant in person in a court of law in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and New Zealand, by prompting, taking notes, and quietly giving advice.

Tanistry

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Tanistry was a system of inheritance practised by the Gaelic nobilities of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and parts of modern Scotland.

Workhouse

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In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse was a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment.

Site Of

Ashford Castle

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Butler House, Kilkenny

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Castle Harrison

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Castlemartin House and Estate

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Dublin City Hall

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The City Hall, Dublin (Irish: Halla na Cathrach, Baile Átha Cliath), originally the Royal Exchange, is a civic building in Dublin, Ireland.

Duckett's Grove

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Kilkenny Castle

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Kilmainham Gaol

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Leinster House

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Library of Trinity College Dublin

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Newgrange

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Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, placed on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda.

Spire of Dublin

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Strokestown Park

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Swiss Cottage, Cahir

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Ardagh Chalice

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Book of Durrow

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Book of Kells

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Music in the Tuileries

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Newgrange

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Tara Brooch

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