Irish Free State
Americannoun
noun
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Debate that day led to the drawing up of the Inverness Formula which guided later discussions on the treaty creating the Irish Free State.
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The Irish Free State eventually became the Republic of Ireland in 1949.
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Charlie was born just a few months before the Irish Free State - as it was then known - played its first international football match.
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They were among the tens of thousands of troops from the UK and the Irish Free State who formed part of the world’s largest sea and air invasion.
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Although it was part of the part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland had the option in December 1922 of becoming part of the Irish Free State.
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