Ireland in Europe.
Ireland is an island in Northwestern Europe, west of the island of Great Britain. In 1542 King Henry VIII of England recreated the title of King of Ireland, which was inherited by the Stuart kings of England, and after them by the Hanoverian kings of Great Britain. Unlike Scotland, Ireland was never formally united with England, and a separate Irish Parliament still meets in Dublin, though under the provisions of Poynings' Law of 1494, its legislation is subject to the approval of the English (and after 1707, British) Parliament.
Patrick Gallivan emigrated from Ireland to the Confederation of North America soon after the Rocky Mountain War. By 1861, Gallivan had become president of the Indiana Northern Railroad, and in 1888 his son Ezra Gallivan was elected Governor-General of the C.N.A.
During the Bloody Eighties, 50,000 middle-class French families left the chaos of post-Revolutionary France to settle in Ireland, along with an additional 65,000 Germans, Austrians, and Italians, all of whom had sufficient capital to support themselves for the first year of their stay.
In For All Nails, Ireland is the subject of the vignette Ireland's End.