Ireland
A number of Irish institutions retain the "Royal" prefix, even though the country has been a republic since 1949.
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (1784)
- Royal Black Institution (1797)
- Royal Irish Academy - Charter granted 1785
- Royal Cork Yacht Club - (Est. 1720)
A more detailed list of current Irish institutions with Royal patronage is available here
A list of former Royal institutions with ties to Ireland, but they were mostly British institutions created in Ireland during British rule:
- Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) - disbanded
- Royal Irish Constabulary 1868-1922 - disbanded and replaced by Garda Síochána
- Royal Irish Artillery - disbanded 1801
- Royal Irish Rifles - disbanded 1763
- Royal Ulster Rifles 1793-1881 - renamed Royal Irish Rifles and retained name until 1921 (renamed as Royal Ulster Rifles until 1947 when it merged with Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers to form North Irish Brigade
- Royal Irish Fusiliers 1827-1947
- Royal University of Ireland 1880-1908
- Royal Irish Fisheries Company
- Trinity College, Dublin 1592 - present
Read more about this topic: Royal Charter
Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“There is no topic ... more soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That’s not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It’s just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.”
—Dodie Smith, and Lewis Allen. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland)
“It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)