CIRA, Continuity Army Council, Continuity Irish Republican Army - a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein

Catholic Reaction Force, INLA, Irish National Liberation Army, People's Liberation Army, People's Republican Army - a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland

IRA, Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provos - a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland

Dissident Irish Republican Army, Real IRA, Real Irish Republican Army, RIRA - a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire; has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement

British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations - an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and its dependencies and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states but owe allegiance to the British Crown

Common Market, EC, EEC, European Community, European Economic Community, European Union, EU, Europe - an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he took Britain into Europe"

European country, European nation - countries occupying the European continent

Emerald Isle, Hibernia, Ireland - an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

capital of Ireland, Dublin, Irish capital - capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State

Cork - a port city in southern Ireland

Galway - a port city in western Ireland on Galway Bay

Limerick - port city in southwestern Ireland

Tara - a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century

Waterford - a port city in southern Ireland; famous for glass industry

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles