Ireland: Institutions & Organisations

ARAS AN UACHTARAN –

BHS – British Horse Society

BUNREACHT na hEIREANN

CIE –

CoI – the Church of Ireland,

DAIL EIREANN –

DCU -Dublin City University, a veritable marvel of modern architecture in the northern suburbs of the Ireland’s capital

DIT – Dublin Institute of Technology, soon to be unified on a single campus on the former site of Grangegorman Mental Hospital, and already nicknamed the Loony Uni.

DU – Dublin University

DUBLIN CASTLE -

DUP – The Democratic Unionist Party 

FAI –

Fianna Fail –

Fine Gael –

GAA –

Gael Linn –

GUI – Golf Union of Ireland

IAFF – Irish Amateur Fencing Federation

IRA –

IRB –

IRFU

ISPCA –

ISPCC –

Irish Independent -

Irish News –

Irish Press –

Irish Times -

King’s Hospital –

King’s Inns –

Labour –

LEINSTER HOUSE –

NCAD – National College of Art & Design,

NUJ – National Union of Journalists

OIREACHTAS na hEIREANN –

Orange Order –

PHOENIX PARK –

Pobhlacht, An –

Progressive Democrats (PDs) -

QUB – Queen’s University Belfast

RC – Roman Catholic

RDS – Royal Dublin Society. Founded as the Dublin Society in 17xx,

RHA – Royal Hibernian Academy

RIA – Royal Irish Academy

RIAC – Royal Irish Automobile Club,

RIAI – Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland –

RIC – Royal Irish Constabulary

RNLI – Royal National Lifeboat Institute. Founded

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Royal College of Surgeons -

Royal Cork Institution -

Royal Cork Yacht Club –  

Royal Galway Yacht Club -

Royal Hospital, Kilmainham -

Royal Irish Academy of Music –

Royal Irish Fusiliers –

Royal Irish Rifles –

Royal Irish Yacht Club -

Royal St. George Yacht Club -  

RSAI – Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland -

RTE – Radio Telefis na hEireann, the

RUC – Royal Ulster Constabulary

SEANAD EIREANN –

Sick & Indigent Roomkeepers Society -

Sinn Fein –

SPUC -

STORMONT CASTLE –

TAOISEACH -

TANAISTE –

TCD – Trinity College, Dublin

UCC – University College Cork

UCD – University College Dublin

UCG – University College Galway, now NUI Galway

UUP – Ulster Unionist Party

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