Individual #Eire__Ireland__Irish_Free_State__Republic_of_Ireland  a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921
  instance of:  European_country
  part:  Cork  Galway  Dublin  Limerick  Tara  Waterford
  member of:  European_Union
  part of:  Ireland__Hibernia__Emerald_Isle  an island comprising the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
     part of:  British_Isles  Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic
        part of:  Atlantic_Ocean__Atlantic  the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
  part of:  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
     part of:  Eurasia  the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
        part of:  eastern_hemisphere__easternhemisphere__orient  the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
        part of:  northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator

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