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The GDP of the Republic of Ireland as of 2021 was €423.5 billion (nominal), [226] and in Northern Ireland in 2021, it was £52 billion (GVA Balanced). [227] The GDP per capita in the Republic of Ireland was €84,049.9 (nominal) as of 2021, [226] and in Northern Ireland 2021 was £27,154 (GVA Balanced). [227]
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.
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 [20] The 1938 Act was repealed in 1981, and in 1996 a British journalist described Eire as "now an oddity rarely used, an out-of-date reference".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.
There were highs and lows across Ireland in 2023 – a year that saw the deaths of singers Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan, as well as an emotional visit from the US president.
The introduction of Christianity to Ireland in 432 AD caused burial to become the norm as Christian rites sanctioned and continued burial while replacing the old pagan ways. Cremation and burial were practised simultaneously, complete skeletons have been found along with urns containing ashes and burnt bones in the same grave.
The 1948 Act does not name the state "Republic of Ireland", because to have done so would have put it in conflict with the Constitution. [23] The government of the United Kingdom used the name "Eire" (without the diacritic) and, from 1949, "Republic of Ireland", for the state. [24]
Noel Browne introduced a private member's bill to abolish the death penalty in the Republic of Ireland in March 1981. [110] The Fianna Fáil government voted it down on its first reading. [110] Fine Gael had supported the first reading and would have allowed a free vote at the second reading; the Labour Party supported abolition. [110]
Political map of the island of Ireland today showing Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland. Negotiations between the British and Irish negotiating teams produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty, concluded on 6 December 1921. The Irish team was led by Michael Collins, who had organised the IRA intelligence during the War of ...