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New Ireland was a Crown colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain twice established in modern-day Maine after British forces captured the area during the American Revolutionary War and again during the War of 1812. The colony lasted four years during the Revolution, and eight months during the War of 1812.
New Ireland (Tok Pisin: Niu Ailan; Irish: Éire Nua), or Latangai, is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately 7,404 km 2 (2,859 sq mi) in area with c. 120,000 people. [2] It is named after the island of Ireland .
New Ireland (Maine), an abortive 18th-century British Colony in modern-day Maine and New Brunswick; New Ireland, a proposed renaming of Prince Edward Island, led by then lieutenant governor Walter Patterson in 1770; New Ireland, a short-lived territory proclaimed by the Castle Hill convict rebellion in Australia
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In May 2021, Ireland's Future welcomed the launch of the New Ireland Commission marking "further evidence of how the conversation on a new Ireland is developing and progressing." [ 6 ] The first 32-member panel was assembled by the SDLP in May 2021 including civic, faith, community and business leaders to "fuel public debate and discourse about ...
In the early days of the French Revolution while searching for a lost scientific expedition the vessel La Recherche passed by New Ireland. On board was the prominent botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière who noted in his journal fine stands of teak (Tectona grandis) trees growing at the southern end of the island.
Éire Nua, or "New Ireland", was a proposal supported by the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin during the 1970s and early 1980s for a federal United Ireland.The proposal was particularly associated with the Dublin-based leadership group centred on Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Dáithí Ó Conaill, who were the authors of the policy.