Ireland
- Bagenalstown → Muine Bheag (1932)
- Charleville → Ráth Luirc (1920s)
- Cove → Queenstown (1849) → Cobh (1922)
- Dún Laoghaire → Kingstown (1821) → Dún Laoghaire (1921)
- Edgeworthstown → Mostrim (1935) → Edgeworthstown (1974)
- Fethard → Fethard-on-Sea (1914)
- Kingwilliamstown → Ballydesmond (1951)
- Lisbrack → Newtownforbes (1750)
- Maryborough → Portlaoise (1929)
- Newbridge → Droichead Nua (1930s)
- Newtownbarry → Bunclody (1950)
- Parsonstown → Birr (1920s)
- Philipstown → Daingean (1921)
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Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Life springs from death and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.... They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
—Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916)
“The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
—Jack Holland (b. 1947)