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| | England - Appendices - England's Opponents: Ireland's National Football Teams |
 | | These sources have differed, however, over the point at which the united Ireland team, known simply as Ireland, ceased to exist and the team representing the north, known as Northern Ireland, came into being. |
 | | A second camp chooses as the demarcation point 1923, the year FIFA and the British associations recognized the autonomy of the Dublin association. |
 | | None of the traditional sources have chosen a fourth alternative, to regard the demarcation point as the date the team representing the north either voluntarily stopped or was prohibited from selecting players from both parts of Ireland. |
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