After the southern part of Ireland became independent in 1922, the team continued to be termed the British Isles, referring to the British Isles geographic term, rather than national citizenship.

The Republic of Ireland national football team also played two games at the venue during the construction of the Aviva Stadium.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

CND has a national organisation based in London, national groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, regional groups in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, the East Midlands, Kent, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Mid Somerset, Norwich, South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, Southern England, South West England, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands and Yorkshire, and local branches.

Towards the end of his life Carl Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with national intergroup conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland.

As the capital city, Dublin seats the national parliament of Ireland, the Oireachtas.

This was the venue for home games of both the Irish Rugby Union Team and the Republic of Ireland national football team.

Yet in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity, the loss of traditional music can be slowed ; this is held to be true, for instance in the case of Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Brittany, and Galicia, Greece and Crete all of which retain their traditional music to some degree, in some such areas the decline of traditional music and loss of traditions has been reversed.

This is shown on the national flag of Ireland.

As well as the amenities of the Botanic Gardens and local parks, the national meteorological office Met Éireann, the Fisheries Board, the National Standards Authority of Ireland, Sustainable Energy Ireland, the National Metrology Laboratory ( NML ), the Department of Defence and the national enterprise and trade board Enterprise Ireland are all located in the area.

The term has also been used to taunt non-Irish-born players who choose to play for the Republic of Ireland national football team, fans of Irish teams, who are members of supporters clubs outside of Ireland, and other Irish individuals living in Great Britain.

Legislative power is vested in the Oireachtas, the bicameral national parliament, which consists of Dáil Éireann, Seanad Éireann and the President of Ireland.

Telecommunications in Ireland, including postal services run by An Post, are regulated to a large extent by the Commission for Communications Regulation ( ComReg ), the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has overall responsibility for national policy and regulation.

Airlines based in Ireland include Aer Lingus ( the former national airline of the Republic of Ireland ), Ryanair, Aer Arann and CityJet.

From 1937 until 1998, Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Ireland provided that " he national territory consists of the whole island of Ireland ".

The Irish Wolfhound is sometimes regarded as the national dog breed of Ireland but in fact no breed has ever been officially adopted as such.

The British and Irish Lions ( formerly known as the British Isles and the British Lions ) is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Combined rugby union sides from the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland toured in the Southern Hemisphere from 1888 onwards.

In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland it is traditional for the Premier League, Scottish Premier League and Irish Premier League respectively, as well as the lower divisions and rugby leagues, to hold a full programme of football and Rugby League matches on Boxing Day.

The national rugby league team are nicknamed the wolfhounds, and the Irish Rugby Football Union, which governs rugby union, changed the name of the country's A ( second-level ) national team in that code to the Ireland Wolfhounds in 2010.

The Arms Park hosted the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, which was used for the athletics events, but this event caused damage to the drainage system, so much so, that other rugby unions ( England, Scotland and Ireland ) complained after the Games about the state of the pitch.

The spread of rugby union grew from the Home Nations of Great Britain and Ireland, and was absorbed by many of the countries associated with the British Empire.

The Six Nations Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the RBS 6 Nations, is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

* Shane Horgan, Leinster Rugby team, former international rugby player, Ireland national rugby union team

He attended Regent House Grammar School in the town and played rugby for Ireland and for the Lions in the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa.

* Hugo MacNeill, former Ireland and British Lions rugby player

* Jim Davidson ( rugby ) ( 1942 – 2007 ), Ireland rugby union player and manager

( born 7 May 1936, Dublin, Ireland ), is an Irish businessman and former international rugby union player.

As a rugby player he represented Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians and is enshrined in a member of the International Rugby Board's Hall of Fame.

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Category: British and Irish Lions rugby union players from Ireland

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* During the 1860s and 1870s, rugby and association football have started to become popular in Ireland.

In 2010 BBC Northern Ireland with RTÉ Sport, TG4 and BBC Alba bought the rights for Celtic League rugby.

* Ben Harrison ( rugby league ), Warrington Wolves player and Ireland international

* Eddie O ' Sullivan, former Ireland rugby coach

Category: Ireland international rugby union players

* Craig Gilroy plays rugby for Ulster and Ireland

Following the 1707 union of England and Scotland, and the 1801 creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British foreign policy, on the continent, was to contain expansion by its competitor powers such as France and Spain.

He advocated for the union of England and Scotland, thus being one of the influences behind the consolidation of the United Kingdom ; and also advocated, later on, for the integration of Ireland into the Union.

The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England ( James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland ) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau ( William of Orange ).

Hamilton was made Sheriff of Linlithgow in 1600, received large grants of lands in Scotland and Ireland, was created in 1603 Baron Abercorn, and on 10 July 1606 was rewarded for his services in the matter of the union by being made Earl of Abercorn and Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell and Kilpatrick.

Copyright under the Statute applied to Scotland and England, as well as Ireland when that country joined the union in 1800.

The Tudors extended their power beyond modern England, achieving the full union of England and the Principality of Wales in 1542 ( Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542 ); and successfully asserting English authority over the Kingdom of Ireland.

The United Kingdom has sought to be a leading member of the United Nations, the European Union and NATO, yet since the 1990s large-scale devolution movements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have brought into question the future viability of this constantly evolving political union.

Events that culminated in the union with Ireland had spanned several centuries.

The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was brought about by the Act of Union 1800, creating the " United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ".

* August 26 – The Dublin Lock-out begins in Ireland ; all trade union members are dismissed.

** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

With the union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 new creations were styled as baronets of the United Kingdom.

# After the union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801 to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, all baronetcies created were under the style of the United Kingdom.

In the legend of the Children of Lir, she was changed into a swan and cursed by her stepmother, Aoife, to wander the lakes and rivers of Ireland, with her brothers Fiachra, Conn and Aodh, for 900 years until saved by the marriage of Lairgren, son of Colman, son of Cobthach, and Deoch, daughter of Finghin, which union broke the curse.

Another theory is that it was played throughout a prototypical full union of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.

It is gradually becoming accepted that the union pipes originated from the Pastoral pipes and gained popularity in Ireland within the Protestant Anglo-Irish community and its gentlemen pipers.