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Media in category "Featured pictures of the Republic of Ireland" The following 21 files are in this category, out of 21 total. A Wilde time 3.jpg 3,615 × 2,471; 9.19 MB
Images of Dublin (city) (1 F) F. Featured pictures of the Republic of Ireland (21 F) Media in category "Images of the Republic of Ireland"
Images of the Republic of Ireland (2 C, 1 F) Irish public domain photographs (8 F) M. Maps of Ireland (6 P) N. Images of Northern Ireland (1 C) P. Images of Irish ...
The island of Ireland, with border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland indicated.. Symbols of Ireland are marks, images, or objects that represent Ireland. Because Ireland was not partitioned until 1922, many of the symbols of Ireland predate the division into Southern Ireland (later Irish Free State and then Ireland) and Northern Ireland.
This was altered by the Ireland Act 1949, where the English-law name of the state was changed to "Republic of Ireland". [20] The 1938 Act was repealed in 1981, and in 1996 a British journalist described Eire as "now an oddity rarely used, an out-of-date reference". [21] Within Ireland however, the spelling "Eire" was incorrect.
This category contains images whose copyright has expired in the Republic of Ireland because they were first published, or created, by an author who died 70 years or more before 1 January this year, or because they were first published before 1 January this year and the author was anonymous or pseudonymous.
Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), a sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
[8] [9] [10] The government only registered "left-facing" images, with the harp's sound board on the right. While the Attorney General's office felt that right-facing images should also be registered, patent agents advised this might be interfere with Guinness Brewery's use of such harps in its logo since the 1870s. [11]