New Ireland
Wikimedia disambiguation page
New Ireland may refer to:
Geography
New Ireland (island), large island in the state of Papua New Guinea
New Ireland Province, administrative division of Papua New Guinea
New Ireland (New Brunswick), island in Canada
Politics
United Ireland, the proposed unification of the island of Ireland as a sovereign state
New Ireland Forum, reported in 1984 with recommendations for ending the Troubles
Éire Nua, an Irish republican political agenda
History
New Ireland (Maine), an abortive 18th-century British Colony in modern-day Maine and New Brunswick
New Ireland, a proposed renaming of Prince Edward Island, led by then lieutenant-governor Walter Patterson in 1770
New Ireland, a short-lived territory proclaimed by the Castle Hill convict rebellion in Australia
New Ireland, a proposed renaming of Canada in the Fenian Manifesto should the Fenians manage to capture Montreal, which was the capital of Canada until 1849.
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