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The Easter Proclamation of 1916, and the Irish Declaration of Independence in 1919, declared the name of Ireland to be the "Irish Republic". Why then in 1948 did Ireland change it's official description to the "Republic of Ireland"

by /u/Blackfire853 in /r/AskHistorians

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