The Catholic Irish Free State (Eire) was formed in 1921, and the six mainly Protestant counties in the northeast were left as a separate entity, forming Northern Ireland. From the Irish nationalist viewpoint, this act dismembered Ireland.
आयरलैन्ड के राष्ट्रीय दृष्टिकोण के अनुसार इससे आयरलैन्ड का अंगच्छेद हुआ ।