{"id":1810,"date":"2011-05-18T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2023-08-30T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:35:00","slug":"queen-of-australia-visits-republic-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Queen of Australia Visits Republic of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our\u00a0Queen, in one of her other roles as United Kingdom head of state, pays a state visit to the Republic of Ireland, part of the UK until 1921.\u00a0It is\u00a0the first\u00a0British state visit to Eire since 1911.\u00a0At the state dinner\u00a0in Dublin Castle, the contrast between the heavily bejewelled\u00a0Queen and the almost unadorned &#8211;\u00a0and directly elected &#8211; Eire head of state,\u00a0Mary\u00a0McAleese,\u00a0couldn&#8217;t have been more obvious.\u00a0 No curtsying either. Eire was the first large\u00a0part of the former British Empire to claim constitutional independence from Britain in 1937. It has not rejoined the recreated\u00a0Commonwealth post WWII, of which the majority of members are republics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0Queen, in one of her other roles as United Kingdom head of state, pays a state visit to the Republic of Ireland, part of the UK until 1921.\u00a0It is\u00a0the first\u00a0British state visit to Eire since 1911.\u00a0At the state dinner\u00a0in Dublin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}