Both Uses of
republic
in
First Address to Irish Parliament From a British PM
- We see a changed Republic of Ireland today: a modern, open economy; after the long years of emigration, people beginning to come back for the quality of life you now offer; a country part of Europe's mainstream, having made the most of European structural funds but no longer reliant on them; some of the best business brains in the business world; leaders in popular culture, U2, the Corrs, Boyzone, B-Witched; a country that had the courage to elect its first woman president and liked it…†
- Those urges to belong, divergent as they are, can live together more easily if we, Britain and the Irish Republic, can live closer together too.†
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Definition:
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(republic) a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws