Union of Great Britain and Ireland

GPTKB entity

Properties (52)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf political union
gptkbp:area 315,134 km²
gptkbp:capital gptkb:Dublin
gptkbp:currency gptkb:British_pound
gptkbp:dissolved 6 December 1922
gptkbp:flag gptkb:Union_Jack
gptkbp:formed 1 January 1801
gptkbp:governmentType Parliamentary democracy
gptkbp:historical_significance gptkb:Irish_independence_movement
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Union of Great Britain and Ireland
gptkbp:notable_event gptkb:Irish_Civil_War_1922-1923
gptkb:Anglo-Irish_Treaty_1921
Easter Rising 1916
gptkbp:notableFigures gptkb:Lord_Asquith
gptkb:Patrick_Pearse
gptkb:Tony_Blair
gptkb:Gordon_Brown
gptkb:Queen_Victoria
gptkb:Winston_Churchill
gptkb:Boris_Johnson
gptkb:Charles_Stewart_Parnell
gptkb:Roger_Casement
gptkb:Edward_Heath
gptkb:George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkb:Henry_Campbell-Bannerman
gptkb:Éamon_de_Valera
gptkb:David_Cameron
gptkb:Margaret_Thatcher
gptkb:Tom_Clarke
gptkb:Michael_Collins
gptkb:Clement_Attlee
gptkb:David_Lloyd_George
gptkb:Harold_Macmillan
gptkb:James_Connolly
gptkb:Joseph_Plunkett
gptkb:James_Craig
gptkb:John_Redmond
gptkb:Arthur_Griffith
gptkb:Eamon_de_Valera
gptkb:William_Butler_Yeats
Theresa May
Countess Markievicz
Seán Mac Diarmada
gptkbp:officialLanguage English
Irish
gptkbp:population approximately 6 million (1921)
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Kingdom_of_Great_Britain
gptkbp:related_to gptkb:British_Empire
Home Rule movement
Act of Union 1800
Partition of Ireland
gptkbp:successor gptkb:United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland