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Originally Posted by dougal This would make some nice reading of the most famous part of our history in Ireland although we didnt become a republic till 1922, |
No, you didn't become a republic until 1948.
Until that date your nation was known as the Irish Free State, and you still had the king of the United Kingdom as your ceremonial Head of State.
The nation was also still part of the British Commonweath.
It wasn't until the 18th April 1948 with the passing of the Republic of Ireland Act in the Irish parliament, that the Irish Free State became the Republic Of Ireland.