The Crossword Solver found answer to “Day of the week for voting (Abbr.)”, 7 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : IRELAND
Ireland, Hibernia, Emerald Isle – n
an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
The island of Ireland comprises the Republic of Ireland, which is a sovereign country, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
WHY IS IRELAND TWO COUNTRIES?
The Republic of Ireland endured a hard-fought birth. Ruled from Great Britain since the 13th century, its citizens, many of them suppressed Catholics, struggled to remove themselves from British domination for the next several hundred years.
Ireland’s situation changed dramatically at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1919 an Irish republic was proclaimed by Sinn Féin, an Irish nationalist party. Facing civil war in Ireland, Britain partitioned the island in 1920, with separate parliaments in the predominantly Protestant northeast and predominantly Catholic south and northwest. However, the republicans opposed the formula, and in 1922 the Irish Free State was formed. Almost immediately, the northeast—Northern Ireland—withdrew and accepted self-governance within the United Kingdom.
Dublin was set as the capital of the Irish Free State, and in 1937 a new constitution renamed the nation Éire, or Ireland. In 1949 it became a republic and left the British Commonwealth.
WHY IS IT CALLED THE EMERALD ISLE?
Emerald Isle is the poetic name for Ireland due to its green countryside, first referred to in print by William Drennan in his poem “When Erin first rose”
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