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Since at least 1542, England and later Great Britain and Ireland have been connected politically, reaching a height in 1801 with the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. About five-sixths of the island of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922 as the Irish Free State .
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Vietnamese prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, visited Ireland in 2008. Tánaiste Brian Cowen visited Vietnam in 2008. Vietnam received over €12 million in aid from Ireland in 2011. [188] Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the relation with Ireland Archived 19 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine; President Vietnam To Lam visited to ...
Ireland fields a single national rugby team and a single association, the Irish Rugby Football Union, governs the sport across the island. The Irish rugby team have played in every Rugby World Cup, making the quarter-finals in eight of them. [196] Ireland also hosted games during the 1991 and the 1999 Rugby World Cups (including a quarter-final).
Map of areas of influence in Ireland c. 1450. From the late 12th century, the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland resulted in Anglo-Norman control of much of Ireland, over which the kings of England then claimed sovereignty. [2] [3] By the late Late Middle Ages, Anglo-Norman control was limited to an area around Dublin known as the Pale. [4]
Ireland was no closer to home rule by the mid-19th century, and rebellions in 1848 and 1867 failed. [131] O'Connell's campaign was hampered by the limited scope of the franchise in Ireland. [132] The wider the franchise was expanded, the better anti-union parties were able to do in Ireland. [133]
Political map of present-day Ireland. The Partition of Ireland (Irish: críochdheighilt na hÉireann) was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK) divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland (the area today known as the Republic of Ireland, or simply Ireland).
The border at Killeen (viewed from the UK side) marked only by a metric (km/h) speed limit sign. Originally intended as an internal boundary within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the border was created in 1921 under the United Kingdom Parliament's Government of Ireland Act 1920. [5]