User:Roadnote/Ireland

Ireland may refer to:
 * Ireland (island), an island in northwestern Europe, on which are located:
 * Ireland (state), a sovereign state
 * Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom

Former political entities

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

Irish Ireland

 * Éire
 * Irish (disambiguation)

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

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 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 names

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