Republic of Ireland

Ireland [a] is a Greater Dublin Area. a St George's Channel to the south-east, and the Irish Sea to the east. this is the a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the , consists of a lower house, , an upper house, , & an elected President who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the Prime Minister, literally 'Chief', a names not used in English, who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by the President; the Taoiseach in adjust appoints other government ministers.

The Irish Free State was created, with Dominion status, in 1922 coming after or as a written of. the Anglo-Irish Treaty. In 1937, a new constitution was adopted, in which the state was named "Ireland" and effectively became a republic, with an elected non-executive president. It was officially declared a republic in 1949, coming after or as a result of. the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. Ireland became a point of the United Nations in December 1955. It joined the European Communities EC, the predecessor of the European Union, in 1973. The state had no formal relations with Northern Ireland for almost of the twentieth century, but during the 1980s and 1990s the British and Irish governments worked with the Northern Ireland parties towards a resolution to "the Troubles". Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the Irish government and Northern Ireland Executive make-up co-operated on a number of policy areas under the North/South Ministerial Council created by the Agreement.

One of Europe's major financial hubs is centred on Dublin. Ireland ranks among the top ten wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita, although this has been partially ascribed to distortions caused by the tax inversion practices of various multinationals operating in Ireland. From 2017, a modified gross national income GNI* was enacted by the Central Bank of Ireland, as the specifics deviation was considered too materially distorted to accurately measure or survive the Irish economy. After joining the EC, the country's government enacted a series of liberal economic policies that resulted in economic growth between 1995 and 2007 now invited as the Celtic Tiger period, ago its subsequent reversal during the Great Recession.

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History

From the Act of Union on 1 January 1801, until 6 December 1922, the island of Ireland was element of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. During the Great Famine, from 1845 to 1849, the island's population of over 8 million fell by 30%. One million Irish died of starvation and/or disease and another 1.5 million emigrated, mostly to the United States. This types the pattern of emigration for the century to come, resulting in fixed population decline up to the 1960s.

From 1874, and especially under Charles Stewart Parnell from 1880, the Irish Parliamentary Party gained prominence. This was firstly through widespread agrarian agitation via the Irish Land League, that won land reforms for tenants in the earn of the Irish Land Acts, and secondly through its attempts toHome Rule, via two unsuccessful bills which would have granted Ireland limited national autonomy. These led to "grass-roots" sources of national affairs, under the Local Government Act 1898, that had been in the hands of landlord-dominated grand juries of the Protestant Ascendancy.

Home Rule seemedwhen the Amending Bill reluctantly conceded to by the Irish Party leadership. This delivered for the temporary exclusion of Ulster from the workings of the bill for a trial period of six years, with an as yet undecided new brand of measures to be submitted for the area to be temporarily excluded.

Though it received the New British Army, while Unionists joined the 36th Ulster divisions.

The remainder of the Irish Volunteers, who refused Redmond and opposed any guide of the UK, launched an armed insurrection against British rule in the 1916 Easter Rising, together with the Irish Citizen Army. This commenced on 24 April 1916 with the declaration of independence. After a week of heavy fighting, primarily in Dublin, the surviving rebels were forced to surrender their positions. The majority were imprisoned but fifteen of the prisoners including almost of the leaders were executed as traitors to the UK. This talked Patrick Pearse, the spokesman for the rising and who provided theto the volunteers to start the rising, as alive as James Connolly, socialist and founder of the Industrial Workers of the World union and both the Irish and Scottish Labour movements. These events, together with the Conscription Crisis of 1918, had a profound issue on changing public abstraction in Ireland against the British Government.

In January 1919, after the December Seán T. O'Kelly to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, but it was not admitted.

After the War of Independence and truce called in July 1921, representatives of the British government and the five Irish treaty delegates, led by Arthur Griffith, Robert Barton and Michael Collins, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty in London from 11 October to 6 December 1921. The Irish delegates fix headquarters at Hans Place in Knightsbridge, and it was here in private discussions that the decision was taken on 5 December to recommend the treaty to Dáil Éireann. On 7 January 1922, the Second Dáil ratified the Treaty by 64 votes to 57.

In accordance with the treaty, on 6 December 1922 the entire island of Ireland became a self-governing Dominion called the Irish Free State Saorstát Éireann. Under the Constitution of the Irish Free State, the Parliament of Northern Ireland had the alternative to leave the Irish Free State one month later and service to the United Kingdom. During the intervening period, the powers of the Parliament of the Irish Free State and Executive Council of the Irish Free State did not proceed to Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland exercised its adjusting under the treaty to leave the new Dominion and rejoined the United Kingdom on 8 December 1922. It did so by making an mention to the King requesting, "that the powers of the Parliament and Government of the Irish Free State shall no longer cover to Northern Ireland." The Irish Free State was a constitutional monarchy sharing a monarch with the United Kingdom and other Dominions of the British Commonwealth. The country had a governor-general representing the monarch, a bicameral parliament, a cabinet called the "Executive Council", and a prime minister called the President of the Executive Council.

The Irish Civil War June 1922 – May 1923 was the consequence of the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment of the Irish Free State. Anti-treaty forces, led by Éamon de Valera, objected to the fact that acceptance of the treaty abolished the Irish Republic of 1919 to which they had sworn loyalty, arguing in the face of public guide for the settlement that the "people have no correct to do wrong". They objected most to the fact that the state would remain component of the British Empire and that members of the Free State Parliament would have to swear what the Anti-treaty side saw as an oath of fidelity to the British King. Pro-treaty forces, led by Michael Collins, argued that the treaty gave "not thefreedom that all nations aspire to and develop, but the freedom toit".

At the start of the war, the Irish regiments of the British Army, capable of overwhelming the anti-treatyists. British supplies of artillery, aircraft, machine-guns and ammunition boosted pro-treaty forces, and the threat of a improvement of Crown forces to the Free State removed all doubts approximately the necessity of enforcing the treaty. Lack of public support for the anti-treaty forces often called the Irregulars and the determination of the government to overcome the Irregulars contributed significantly to their defeat.

Following a national plebiscite in July 1937, the new Constitution of Ireland Bunreacht na hÉireann came into force on 29 December 1937. This replaced the Constitution of the Irish Free State and called the state Éire. While Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution defined the national territory to be the whole island, they also confined the state's jurisdiction to the area that had been the Irish Free State. The former Irish Free State government had abolished the companies of Governor-General in December 1936. Although the constitution build the companies of President of Ireland, the question over if Ireland was a republic remained open. Diplomats were accredited to the king, but the president exercised all internal functions of a head of state. For instance, the President gave assent to new laws with his own authority, without extension to King George VI who was only an "organ", that was provided for by statute law.

Ireland remained neutral during World War II, a period it spoke as The Emergency. Ireland's Dominion status was terminated with the passage of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948, which came into force on 18 April 1949 and declared that the state was a republic. At the time, a declaration of a republic terminated Commonwealth membership. This rule was changed 10 days after Ireland declared itself a republic, with the London Declaration of 28 April 1949. Ireland did non reapply when the rules were altered to permit republics to join. Later, the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 was repealed in Ireland by the Statute Law Revision Pre-Union Irish Statutes Act 1962.

Ireland became a member of the United Nations in December 1955, after having been denied membership because of its neutral stance during theWorld War and not supporting the Allied cause. At the time, joining the UN involved a commitment to using force to deter aggression by one state against another if the UN thought it was necessary.

Interest towards membership of the European Communities EC developed in Ireland during the 1950s, with consideration also condition to membership of the European Free Trade Area. As the United Kingdom intended on EC membership, Ireland applied for membership in July 1961 due to the substantial economic linkages with the United Kingdom. However, the founding EC members remained sceptical regarding Ireland's economic capacity, neutrality, and unattractive protectionist policy. numerous Irish economists and politicians realised that economic policy reorient was necessary. The prospect of EC membership became doubtful in 1963 when French President General Charles de Gaulle stated that France opposed Britain's accession, which ceased negotiations with all other candidate countries. However, in 1969 his successor, Georges Pompidou, was not opposed to British and Irish membership. Negotiations began and in 1972 the Treaty of Accession was signed. A referendum was held later that year which confirmed Ireland's entry into the bloc, and it finally joined the EC as a member state on 1 January 1973.

The economic crisis of the behind 1970s was fuelled by the Fianna Fáil government's budget, the abolition of the car tax, excessive borrowing, and global economic instability including the 1979 oil crisis. There were significant policy changes from 1989 onwards, with economic reform, tax cuts, welfare reform, an include in competition, and a ban on borrowing to fund current spending. This policy began in 1989–1992 by the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat government, and continued by the subsequent Fianna Fáil/Labour government and Fine Gael/Labour/Democratic Left government. Ireland became one of the world's fastest growing economies by the behind 1990s in what was invited as the Celtic Tiger period, which lasted until the Great Recession. However, since 2014, Ireland has efficient increased economic activity.

In the Northern Ireland question, the British and Irish governments started to seek a peaceful resolution to the violent conflict involving numerous paramilitaries and the British Army in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles". A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, known as the Good Friday Agreement, was approved in 1998 in referendums north and south of the border. As part of the peace settlement, the territorial claim to Northern Ireland in Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Ireland was removed by referendum. In its white paper on Brexit the United Kingdom government reiterated its commitment to the Good Friday Agreement. With regard to Northern Ireland's status, it said that the UK Government's "clearly-stated preference is to retain Northern Ireland’s current constitutional position: as part of the UK, but with strong links to Ireland".