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# Ireland/History

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A failed rebellion in 1916, the [Easter Rising]?, touched off several years of guerrilla warfare by the Irish Republican Army. In 1921 this finally resulted in independence from the UK (as a self-governing dominion) of the [Irish Free State, or Éire]?, consisting of the 23 southern counties of Leinster?, Munster? and Connaught? and three counties in Ulster? (Cavan?, Monaghan? and Donegal?). The remaining six counties in Ulster (Antrim?, Armagh?, Derry?, Down?, Fermanagh and Tyrone?) became Northern Ireland and remained part of the United Kingdom.

On 18 April 1949 the [Irish Free State]? formally became a republic, adopting the name Ireland, and withdrawing from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973.

Irish governments have nominally sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and in recent decades have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups such as the IRA? (Irish Republican Army). A peace settlement for Northern Ireland was approved in 1998, and a power-sharing government has been established.

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