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:
“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Life springs from death and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.... They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
—Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916)