Is Ireland a member of NATO? No.
Ireland refused to join NATO. At the beginning of NATO's establishment, the United States tried to invite Ireland to join NATO, and since then, NATO has also repeatedly wooed Ireland in the hope that Ireland will join NATO, but Ireland has not agreed.
Why don't you agree? In other words, joining the organization is to help you solve your problems, but NATO does not intend to help Ireland solve problems.
What's wrong with Ireland? It's the territorial dispute with Britain – Northern Ireland.
It is said that from the 12th century, Ireland began to be invaded by England, and compared with England, Ireland was weak, and resisted many English invasions, all of which ended in failure. From then on, Ireland gradually came under the control of England.
In 1542, the King of England also became King of Ireland, marking Ireland as an official British colony.
After the end of World War I, Britain was weakened and was forced to allow independence in south-central Ireland in 1921, but Northern Ireland remained in British hands and was also under the jurisdiction of the British Commonwealth.
In 1948 Ireland declared secession from the British Commonwealth, and in 1949, Ireland became an independent country called the Republic of Ireland.
After independence, Ireland wrote its sovereignty over Northern Ireland into its constitution, and Britain also regarded Northern Ireland as part of British territory, which has not been resolved to this day.
If the organization can't help it solve its problems, why should it join NATO? Besides, Ireland is an island country, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and borders only Britain on land, but Britain still occupies the land, so do you say that Ireland can agree? Not to mention the land that is still written into the Constitution.
Knowledge extension of Ireland: Ireland is located in the south-central part of the island of Ireland in western Europe, and its area is 70,282 square kilometers or 70.28 million square kilometers. As for the population, the population of the entire island of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people.
There are 4.45 million people living in the Republic of Ireland, including about 1.66 million people living in the Dublin Metropolitan Area, while 1.77 million people live in Northern Ireland, including about 570,000 people living in the Belfast Metropolitan Area.
The capital of Ireland is Dublin. Located on the shores of the Gulf of Ireland in the eastern part of the island of Ireland, Dublin is Ireland's largest city, political, economic and cultural centre and largest port.