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From 1882 to 1921 all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised
by the Irish Football Association (IFA).

In 1920 Ireland was partitioned into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. In 1922 Southern Ireland gained
independence as the Irish Free State, later being renamed as the Republic of Ireland.

In 1921 the jurisdiction of the IFA was reduced to Northern Ireland, although its team purported to remain the national
team for all of Ireland until the 1950s, and used the name "Ireland" until the mid-1970s.
Also in 1921, following the initial political upheavals surrounding partition, a Dublin-based organisation calling itself
the Football Association of the Irish Free State (FAIFS) split from the IFA and began organising its own league
and national football team, called the "Irish Free State". After 1936, they reverted to the
designation "Football Association of Ireland" (FAI) and began to refer to their team as "Eire" or "Ireland".

So, during this whole period after 1921, there were two Irish international football teams, chosen by the two rival
Associations. Both Associations, the Northern Ireland-based IFA and the Irish Free State-based FAI, claimed jurisdiction
over the whole of Ireland and considered themselves entitled to select players from the whole island.
Around 40 dual internationals - including Everton's Tommy Eglington, Peter Farrell and Alex Stevenson - were
elected to represent both teams.

In 1953 FIFA ruled that neither team could be referred to as "Ireland" in its competitions, decreeing that the FAI team be
officially designated as the "Republic of Ireland", while the IFA team was to become "Northern Ireland", with eligibility
restricted on the basis of the political/geographic border between the 2 countries.
The IFA's modern Northern Ireland national football team is recognised as the successor to the original Ireland national team.

In these pages, to avoid confusion, only the terms "Northern Ireland" and "Republic of Ireland" are used to denote
the 2 separate teams - irrespective of what they called themselves at the time of the matches.

EVERTON'S REPUBLIC OF IRELAND INTERNATIONALS

(number in brackets = number of goals scored; (s) = came on as a substitute)
Lee Carsley - 21 (16+5) caps
 
Joe Kendrick - 1 cap
2002
Russia (s), S Arabia (s), Finland, Greece  
1927
Italy 'B' *
2003
Scotland (s), Georgia, Albania, Norway (s), Albania (s),   † Kendrick never played a competitive 1st team game for Everton
  Georgia, Russia     (* a full Irish team played and the match
2006 Czech Republic, S Marino         is classed as a full Irish international)
2007 S Marino, Wales, Slovakia, Slovakia, Czech Republic,      
  Germany, Wales   Kevin Kilbane - 24 (21+3) caps and 1 goal
2008 Brazil  
2003
Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, Canada (s)
     
2004
Brazil, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Cyprus,
Tommy Clinton - 3 caps
    Switzerland, France, Faroe Islands, Croatia
1951
Norway   2005 Portugal, Israel, China (s), Israel, Faroe Islands (1),
1953
France     Italy, France, Cyprus, Switzerland
1954
Luxembourg   2006 Sweden (s), Chile, Holland
         
Seamus Coleman - 75 (72+3) caps and 1 goal
  James McCarthy - 25 (23+1) caps
2011
Wales, N Ireland, Scotland (s), Italy  
2013
Sweden, Austria, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland
2012
Serbia (s), Oman, Germany, Faroe Islands, Greece  
2014
Serbia, Georgia
2013 Sweden, Austria, England, Faroe Islands, Spain,  
2015
Poland, England, Scotland, Gibraltar, Georgia, Germany
  Wales, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia  
 
Poland, Bosnia, Bosnia
2014 Serbia, Turkey, Italy, Georgia, Scotland  
2016
Switzerland (s),  Slovakia,  Sweden,  Belgium,  Italy,  France,
2015 Poland, England, Scotland, Georgia, Poland, Bosnia  
 
Georgia,  Moldova
  Bosnia  
2016 Switzerland,  Holland,  Sweden,  Belgium,  Italy,   Jim McDonagh - 4 caps
  France,  Serbia,  Georgia (1),  Moldova,  Austria  
1981
Wales, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, W Germany 'B' *
2017 Wales     (* a full Irish team played and the match
2018 Turkey,  France,  USA,  Wales,  N Ireland,  Denmark         is classed as a full Irish international)
2019 Gibraltar, Georgia, Denmark, Gibraltar, Switzerland,      
  Georgia, Switzerland   Aiden McGeady - 21 (10+11) caps and 2 goals
2021 Serbia, Luxembourg, Qatar, Portugal, Azerbaijan,  
2014
Serbia, Turkey, Italy, Costa Rica (s), Portugal,
  Portugal, Luxembourg     Oman (s), Georgia (2), Gibraltar, Germany, Scotland
2022 Belgium, Armenia, Scotland (s), Malta     USA (s)
2023 France  
2015
Poland, England, Gibraltar (s), Poland (s), Bosnia (s)
2024 Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Portugal, England  
2016
Sweden,  Belgium,  Italy
2025 Portugal, Armenia  
2017
Uruguay (s), Austria (s)
       
Peter Corr - 4 caps
 
1949
Portugal, Spain, England, Sweden   Mick Meagan - 4 caps
     
1961
Scotland
Don Donovan - 5 caps
 
1962
Austria, Iceland
1954
Norway  
1964
Spain
1955
Holland, Norway, W Germany      
1957
England   Jake O'Brien - 9 (6+3) caps
     
2024
England (s)
      2025 Bulgaria (s), Bulgaria, Senegal (s), Luxembourg,
        Hungary, Armenia, Portugal, Armenia
Shane Duffy - 1 cap
     
2014
Costa Rica  
Eamonn O'Keefe - 1 cap
     
1981
Wales
Richard Dunne - 6 (5+1) caps and 2 goals
     
2000
Greece, Scotland (s), Mexico (1), Holland, Portugal,   Jimmy O'Neill - 17 caps
  Estonia (1)  
1952
Spain, France
   
1953
Austria, France, Luxembourg, France
Tommy Eglington - 22 caps and 2 goals*
  1954 Norway
1946
England  
1955
Holland, Norway, W Germany, Yugoslavia, Spain
1947
Spain, Portugal  
1956
Denmark
1948 Portugal, Switzerland   1958 Austria, Poland
1949
Portugal, Sweden  
1959
Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia
1950
Norway      
1951 Argentina, W Germany  
Gerry Peyton - 4 (3+1) 1 caps
1952
W Germany, Austria, Spain, France  
1992
USA, USA, Italy (s), Portugal
1953
Austria (1), France, Luxembourg (1), France   † Peyton never played a competitive 1st team game for Everton
1954 Norway      
1955 Holland, W Germany, Spain  
Terry Phelan - 3 caps
  (* Eglington also has 6 caps (no goals)  
1997
Wales, Macedonia, Romania
      for Northern Ireland)      
      Kevin Sheedy - 42 (37+5) caps and 7 goals
Peter Farrell - 26 (25+1) caps and 3 goals*
 
1983
Holland (s), Malta (1)
1947
Spain, Portugal  
1984
Denmark
1948 Portugal, Spain, Switzerland   1985 Italy, Israel, Switzerland (1), Switzerland, Denmark
1949
Portugal (s), Spain, England (1), Finland (1), Sweden  
1986
Scotland, Poland
1951 Argentina, Norway (1), W Germany  
1987
Israel
1952
W Germany, Austria, Spain, France   1988 Romania, Poland (1), England (s), USSR, Holland (s),
1953
Austria, France, France     N Ireland, Tunisia (1)
1954
Norway  
1989
Hungary, Spain, Malta, Hungary, N Ireland, Malta
1955
Holland, W Germany, Yugoslavia, Spain  
1990
Wales (s), USSR, Finland (s) (1), Turkey, England (1),
1957 England     Egypt, Holland, Romania, Italy
  (* Farrell also has 7 caps (no goals)   1991 Wales, England, Poland, Chile, USA, Hungary (1),
      for Northern Ireland)     Poland, Turkey
     
1992
Wales
Gareth Farrelly - 2 caps
     
1998
Czech Republic, Morocco   Alex Stevenson - 6 caps
     
1946
England
Darron Gibson - 10 (7+3) caps
 
1947
Spain, Portugal
2012
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Hungary (s)   1948 Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
2013
Germany, Kazakhstan     (* Stevenson also has 14 caps and 5 goals
2014
Oman, Gibralta, Germany (s), Scotland         for Northern Ireland)
2016
Holland (s),  Belarus    
     
Mickey Walsh - 1 (0+1) cap
     
1978
N Ireland (s)
         
    Mike Walsh - 4 caps
   
1982
Chile, Brazil, Trinidad & Tob, Iceland