Is Ireland still known a as a free state or a free Ireland noway days?

Question

Is Ireland still known a as a free state or a free Ireland noway days?

Answer 1

As said above, the "Irish Free State" was the title of the 26 counties between 1922 and 1937. We then progressed to become the (100% independant) Republic of Ireland, also officially known under its gaelic name of  Eire or Eireann.

Northern Ireland does not encompass the Northern half of the country (as many foreigners seem to think) but rather the 6 counties in the very North of the island still under British rule.

My family and I and many people I know would use "Eire" in our address  (if you posted a letter from anywhere in the world and used "Eire" it would get here no prob) but it's most common to refer to it as Ireland when referring to the Republic, or Northern Ireland when referring to the 6 counties.

Answer 2

Actually, they went commie last Tuesday, so no more Free noway day

Answer 3

The official name of the republic of ireland is éire or éireann as set out in the constitution, The day to day title used is the republic of ireland. The fact of the matter is that we should call the country éire as thats its official  and proper name. we got around the p**s poor title of free state that was lumped on us by the brittish by calling ourselves saorstat éireann, it might not have ben the title we were looking for but it was in our own language.

Answer 4

I believe so, yes.  After the Easter Rising/Rebellion in 1916 Ireland was considered free and the Irish Republic was born.  However, Ireland was called The Irish Free State from 1922-1937.  This was historically a time when the Irish rebelled against the English with a formal campaign.

Answer 5

It's called the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Republic, or Eire. Nobody actually refers to it as the Free State anymore. We just call it Ireland usually.

Answer 6

Yeah we are a free state but noone calls us that (except a few people in the north) we are known as the Republic (of Ireland) or just simply Ireland. We don't call ourselves Éire like many English people call us

Answer 7

People in Northern Ireland sometimes refer to the Republic as the "free state".

Ireland was correctly called the Free State between 1922 and 1937. From 1937 it was correctly called Éire ("air-a") or Ireland only, and became the Republic of Ireland in 1948.

When Ireland declared independence in 1916 it called itself the Irish Republic. This name was only recognised by the Soviet Union. London would not accept an Irish Republic and demanded that the Irish people offically recognise the English King. Churchill threatened renewed war if they didn't accept.

So until 1937 (when London was distracted by Hitler) the Irish pretended to recognise the English King and refrained from calling themselves a republic.

The Irish Constitution declares the name of the state to be Ireland and its description to be the Republic of Ireland.

Answer 8

Ireland is an island comprising two seperate states - Northern Ireland - which is part of the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The Republic is sometimes called the Free State but this name has since lapsed and is now formally a fully fledged Republic.