Population changes in Ireland from 1841 to 1851 as a result of the Great Potato Famine.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Irish emigrants fleeing Ireland because of potato famine.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Daniel O’Connell.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, LondonCharles Stewart Parnell.
Photos.com/JupiterimagesDouglas Hyde, c. 1940.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesBritish troops inside the ruins of the General Post Office in Dublin after it was destroyed during the Easter Rising.
The Print Collector/Heritage-ImagesSigning of the treaty to establish the Irish Free State, 1921.
The Print Collector/Heritage-ImagesMichael Collins, in a photograph taken in 1919.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.William Thomas Cosgrave.
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35309)Eamon de Valera, the leader of the republicans during the Irish civil war.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Mary Robinson.
Áras an UachtaráinComposition of the European Union.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The Cliffs of Moher on the coast of County Clare, Ireland, just south of Galway Bay.
© Tom Till PhotographyView of Dublin from the River Liffey.
Oliver Benn—Stone/Getty ImagesAerial view of Ireland’s coastline.
© Goodshoot/JupiterimagesSt. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
© Digital Vision/Getty ImagesFarmers look over penned sheep in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland.
Alain Le Garsmeur—Stone/Getty ImagesThe Cathedral of St. Colman and the harbour of Cork city at Cobh, County Cork, Ireland.
Ralph RawlinsonCreative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 (Generic)Houses in Eyeries, County Cork, Ireland.
© Glen Allison/Getty ImagesInterior of the Trinity College Library at the University of Dublin.
© Goodshoot/JupiterimagesJames Joyce, photograph by Gisèle Freund, 1939.
Gisèle FreundOscar Wilde, coloured photograph.
Roger Viollet/Getty ImagesNeolithic burial mound, Newgrange, County Meath, Leinster, Ire.
Brian Morrison/Tourism IrelandAdministrative units of late medieval Ireland.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The English plantation of Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Oliver Cromwell, portrait attributed to Anthony Van Dyck.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesKing William III of England leading his forces to victory over the former king James II in the Battle of the Boyne (1690).
Photos.com/JupiterimagesHenry Flood, engraving by James Heath from a drawing by J. Comerford, published 1811
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