"Maidir leis na hoibrithe, an tír dhúchais, agus maith an chine dhaonna" (Irish) ("For the workers, the homeland, and the good of mankind") | |||||||
| Anthem | "Herald Sóisialta na hÉireann" | ||||||
| Capital | Dublin | ||||||
| Largest city | 53°20.65′N 6°16.05′W | ||||||
| Language | Irish, English | ||||||
| Religion | 78.3 percent Roman Catholic
10.1 percent Irreligious 4.2 percent Protestant 7.4 percent Other | ||||||
| Ethnic Group | 82.2 percent White Irish
9.5 percent Other White 2.6 percent Not stated 2.1 percent Asian Irish / Other Asian 1.5 percent Other ethn. 1.2 percent Black Irish / Black African 0.7% Irish Traveller 0.1% Other Black | ||||||
| Demonym | Irish | ||||||
| Government | One-Party Marxist-Leninist Socialist Republic (1937 - 1989)
One-party Larkist Socialist Republic (1989 - present day) | ||||||
| Legislature | People's National Workers Council | ||||||
| Comhairleoir | James Larkin (first)
Alexander ó Ceallaigh (current) | ||||||
| General Sectary | Betty White (First)
Laura ó Murchadha (current) | ||||||
| Premier/Premiere | Micheal Breathnach (first)
Lea ó Súilleabháin | ||||||
| Area main |
70,273 km2 (27,133 sq mi) km² | ||||||
| water (%) | 2.00 | ||||||
| Population | 4,921,500 | ||||||
| GDP Total: |
$412.797 billion (46th) | ||||||
| per capita | $86,988 (4th) | ||||||
| Established | 29 December 1937 | ||||||
| Independence | from United Kingdom | ||||||
| declared | 21 January 1919 | ||||||
| Currency | Irish Nóta | ||||||
| Time Zone | UTC (GMT) | ||||||
| summer | UTC+1 (IST) | ||||||
| Driving Side | Left | ||||||
| Calling Code | +353 | ||||||
| Internet TLD | .ie | ||||||
The People's Union of Ireland (Irish: Aontas Phobail na hÉireann) also at times refereed to as the Irish People's Union, is a country in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, which is located on the eastern side of the island. Around 40% of the country's population of 4.9 million people resides in the greater Dublin area. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east, and the Irish Sea to the east. It was a one-party Marxist-Leninist Socialist republic from 1937 to 1989 but due to a falling out with the Soviet Union and a growing disillusion with soviet style communism Ireland became a One-party Larkist Socialist republic.
The state was created as the Irish People's State in 1922 as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. It had the status of Dominion until 1937 when a new constitution was adopted, in the which James Larkin copied the soviet style of government and adopted much of the harsh practices of Joseph Stalin. In the 1950's with aid of the Soviet Union and China Ireland became a member of the UN. It was an observer within the Warsaw Pact and joined in 1960 but left in 1989 and joined the Non-alignment movement along with Yugoslavia.
The state had no formal relations with Northern Ireland for most 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 have co-operated on a number of policy areas under the North-South Ministerial Council created by the Agreement.
Ireland ranks among the top ten wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita, and as the tenth most prosperous country in the world according to The Legatum Prosperity Index 2015. Ireland while adopting similar economic practices adopted by the Eastern Bloc, they followed a similar economic structure to Albania, and Yugoslavia, which ironically enabled them to survive the collapse of communism in the 90's.
The country achieved considerable prosperity between the years of 1995 and 2007, which became known as the Celtic Tiger period. This was halted by an unprecedented financial crisis that began in 2008, in conjunction with the concurrent global economic crash. This led to the Dublin Spring (2008 - 2011).However, as the Irish economy was the fastest growing in the EU in 2015,Ireland is again quickly ascending league tables comparing wealth and prosperity internationally. For example, in 2019, Ireland was ranked third most developed country in the world by the United Nations Human Development Index.
Ireland has been scrutinized for freedom of speech, and liberty due to its communist ideology but Alexander ó Ceallaigh, has been described as a benevolent dictator, and has pushed for freedom of speech, transparency, and freedom of liberties. Ireland currently has an observant status within the EU, and is the leader of the Non-alignment movement after Yugoslavia collapsed. It also enforces a militaristic version of neutrality and uses its army primary defensively which in the past have lead to disagreements with the Soviet Union.
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Main article: Politics in People's Union of Ireland
James Larkin the first Comhairleoir
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Andy Barr General secretary of the CPI and People's Union of Ireland from 1970–1983
Ireland is a one-party Larkist Socialist form of government, ruled in part by the Communist Party of Ireland. The head of the state and overall commander of the armed forces is the Comhairleoir (eng: Councilor), the head of the government is the General Secretary who also leads the CPI, and the Premier/Premiere mostly controls the State Media, and secret police. While Ireland is not a member of the European Union it does allow EU citizens to travel into Ireland without passports this policy was implemented in the 1990's.
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Main article: Foreign relations of the People's Union of Ireland
Ireland originally from the late 30's to mid-late 50's was pro-eastern, but soon copied Yugoslavia in maintaining both Eastern and Western relations, and being neutral. Ireland joined the Non-aligned movement after leaving the Warsaw Pact in 1989, and reopen relations with the West primarily the United States in 1990, and the United Kingdom in 1991. Ireland resumed bilateral relations with the Russia Federation with the election of Vladimir Putin in 1999. It has maintained good relations with Vietnam, and China. Ireland is an observer in the European Union despite resistance from the United States and Great Britain, Ireland joined the Warsaw Pact in the late 60's and left in 1989 due to ideological differences with the Soviet Union but maintained bilateral relations with Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania.
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Main article: People's Armed Forces of Ireland
An Irish Su-25 "Frogfoot" flying during the 53rd Easter Rising parade, the People's Aircorps of Ireland used Russian/Soviet airforce emblems
Ireland, is on the fence about neutrality, they were highly active during the Soviet-Afghanistan war providing technical support to the Soviet Union, as well as sending two armored divisions to Poland during the Martial law. The armed forces are made up of the People's Army of Ireland, People's Aircorps of Ireland, and the People's Navy of Ireland.
An Irish T-72 in warsaw in 13 December 1981, two armored brigades including the 1ú Rannán Armúrtha an Phobail "srónbheannach", and the 66ú Rannán Armúrtha an Phobail "Cobra" were deployed to aid the Polish army during the martial law period in Poland
With the fall of communism in 1991 and the fall of Yugoslavia the Irish Army suffered drastically due to a lack of weapons, and supplies for soviet-made weapons and equipment. To supplement these weapons they purchased weapons from France, and the United States, and later purchased weapons from China, Ireland started developing their own weapons and equipment including modifying soviet-era T-72 MBT and BMP-1 IFV's, in 2019.