State · 1922 – 1937
Irish Free State
A state of 1922 – 1937 — 15 years in Europe. It replaced United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Irish Republic and Ireland and followed Southern Ireland. It was replaced by Republic of Ireland. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 4. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 15 years
- 1922 – 1937
- Rulers
- 5
- the President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
- Most ground
- 74,700 km²
- in 1922
- Within it
- 5
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Irish Republic · replaces · 1919 – 1922
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · replaces · 1801 – 1927
- Southern Ireland · follows · 1921 – 1922
- Ireland · replaces
After it
- Republic of Ireland · replaced by · 1937 – present
Rulers
The line of President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George V | 1910 – 1927 | 17 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| W. T. Cosgrave | 1922 – 1932 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Éamon de Valera | 1932 – 1937 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Edward VIII | 1936 – 1936 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| George VI | 1936 – 1937 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1910 – 1937. Only 27 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.64, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
74,700 km² in 1922, 74,600 km² in 1937; at its largest 74,700 km² in 1922. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedSeal of the Irish Free State · Public domain 
flag, undatedFlag of Ireland · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19994 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Irish Civil War · war · 1922 – 1923
- Charles Haughey · politician · 1925 – 2006
- Peter Brown · scientist · 1935 – present
- Ruairí Ó Brádaigh · politician · 1932 – 2013
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood15 years
stood longer than 20% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held74,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 40% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 9 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1912 – 1947, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1922, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q31747 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.