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- proper n. An island of the Bismarck Archipelago, a German colony from 1884 to 1921; governed by Australia from 1921 and then by Papua New Guinea from 1975 to the present day.
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- n. an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
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Examples
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Of these latter, only a small number remained in Arkansas, the rest going to Iowa, where they established a colony known as "New Ireland".
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New England had now become what Lowell was pleased to call "New Ireland".
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"New Ireland" helps me to understand the quarrel of the younger men in Ireland with the Irish Parliamentary party -- but I must, and do, read the "Freeman" as well.
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There is no quick fix nationalist route to a "New Ireland".
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Eight pieces from New Ireland in Papua New Guinea will be at the collection's heart.
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New Ireland carvings have long fascinated artists and collectors.
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Courtesy of Sotheby's New Ireland figure of man with outstretched arms (circa 1880s-1890s).
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A star lot of the Rosenthal Collection's New Ireland segment will be a stunning painted sculpture from around the 1880s or 1890s which is believed to represent a clan chief.
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The address, published in New Ireland for July 17, 1915, was introduced with this note:
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I will, therefore, close this long letter with a hope that the Leader may enable you to complete the powerful analysis of Irish life which you have begun in the New Ireland Review.37
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