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| | IRELAND FACTS AND HISTORY |
 | | The government, responsible to the lower house of the national legislature, is headed by the taoiseach, or prime minister. |
 | | Judicial authority in Ireland is vested in a supreme court, a high court, a court of criminal appeal, and circuit and district courts. |
 | | Republic of Ireland, On Easter Monday, April 18, 1949, by the terms of the Republic of Ireland Bill approved by the Dáil in November 1948, Eire became the Republic of Ireland, formally free of allegiance to the British crown and the Commonwealth of Nations. |
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