Ireland

Ireland

Ireland ranks 37th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Egypt, Portugal, and Iran. Memorable people born in present day Ireland include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, and James Joyce. Memorable people who died in Ireland include Jonathan Swift, George Boole, and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Ireland has been the birth place of many actors, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, an independent state covering five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Read more on Wikipedia