Ira or IRA may refer to:
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Ira (name) Ira ( or or ) is a Unisex name, male and female given name. As a Sanskrit male name, its meaning is that of the wind-God, Vayu. As a Sanskrit female name (ईरा ''I-RA),'' its meaning is "the Earth". It is also the name given to Goddess Saraswa ...
, a Hebrew, Sanskrit, Russian or Finnish language personal name
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Ira (surname)
Ira (as surname) may refer to:
* Leo Ira (:ru:Ира, Лео, :ru) (born 1951), an Estonian football trainer and manager
* (1890s—1987), a Russian emigrant, White army officer, agent "Bureau Klatt" and Abwehr operative.
See also
* Ira (dis ...
, a rare Estonian and some other language family name
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
, UNDP code IRA
Law
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Indian Reorganization Act
The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler–Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of American Indians in the United States. It was the centerpiece of what has been often called the "Indian ...
of 1934, US, on status of Native Americans
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Individual retirement account
An individual retirement account (IRA) in the United States is a form of pension provided by many financial institutions that provides tax advantages for retirement savings. It is a trust that holds investment assets purchased with a taxpayer's e ...
, in the US, giving tax benefits
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Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is a landmark United States federal law which aims to curb inflation by reducing the deficit, lowering prescription drug prices, and investing into domestic energy production while promoting clean en ...
, a US budget reconciliation bill
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Internal Revenue Allotment
The Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) is a local government unit’s (LGU) share of revenues from the Philippine national government. Provinces, independent cities, component cities, municipalities, and barangays each get a separate allotmen ...
, a local share of Philippines government revenue
Music
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Ira (Polish band)
IRA is a Polish rock band formed in 1987 in Radom by Jakub Płucisz (guitar), Wojciech Owczarek (drums), Artur Gadowski (vocal, guitar), Dariusz Grudzień (bass) and Grzegorz Wawrzeńczuk (keyboards). They gained wide popularity in Poland in the ...
, a Polish heavy metal band
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Ira!, a Brazilian rock band
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I.R.A. (band)
I.R.A. is a Colombian hardcore punk band from Medellín, Antioquia Department, in Colombia. It was formed in 1985 by David Viola (at present, guitarist and vocalist of the band) and some of his friends who have already left the band. It is one ...
, a Colombian punk band
*One part of an Andean wind instrument, the
siku
Organizations
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Indian Reunification Association
The Indian Reunification Association (IRA) is an organization whose purpose as set out on its website is "to unify what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh with India under a secular government". It was founded on April 2, 2017, by Markandey Katju, ...
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Indian Rationalist Association
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Indian Rights Association, US, for Native Americans
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Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement The Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA or IRA-Mauritania; French: ''Initiative pour la Resurgence du mouvement Abolitioniste'') is an anti-slavery group in Mauritania headed by Biram Dah Abeid. Mauritania is estimated to ...
(IRA), a Mauritania anti-slavery group
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Insurance Regulatory Authority (Kenya)
The Insurance Regulatory Authority of Kenya (IRA) is the sole authority charged with regulation and supervision of the insurance industry within the Republic of Kenya. It ensures compliance by insurance/reinsurance companies, protects consumers an ...
, the authority charged with regulation and supervision of Kenya's insurance industry
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Intercollegiate Rowing Association
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) governs intercollegiate rowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight rowing programs across the United States, while the NCAA fulfills this role for women's ope ...
, US
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International Reading Association
The International Literacy Association (ILA), formerly the International Reading Association (IRA), is an international global advocacy and member professional organization that was created in 1956 to improve reading instruction, facilitate dialo ...
, now the International Literacy Association
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Internet Research Agency
The Internet Research Agency (IRA; russian: Агентство интернет-исследований, translit=Agentstvo internet-issledovaniy), also known as ''Glavset'' (russian: link=no, Главсеть) and known in Russian Internet sla ...
or "The Trolls of Olgino", a Russian state-sponsored troll group
* ICAO designator for
Iran Air, an Iranian airline
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Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various paramilitary organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to irredentism through Irish republicanism, the belief th ...
, which has existed in various forms since 1917:
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Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ga, Óglaigh na hÉireann) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it ...
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Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
The Irish Republican Army of 1922–1969, an anti-Treaty sub-group of the original Irish Republican Army (1919-1922), fought against the Irish Free State in the Irish Civil War, and its successors up to 1969, when the IRA split again into the ...
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Continuity Irish Republican Army
The Continuity Irish Republican Army (Continuity IRA or CIRA), styling itself as the Irish Republican Army (), is an Irish republican paramilitary group that aims to bring about a united Ireland. It claims to be a direct continuation of the o ...
(1994–present)
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Official Irish Republican Army
The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA; ) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland. It emerged ...
(1969–1972)
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Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reu ...
(1969–2005)
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Real Irish Republican Army
The Real Irish Republican Army, or Real IRA (RIRA), is a dissident Irish republican paramilitary group that aims to bring about a United Ireland. It formed in 1997 following a split in the Provisional IRA by dissident members, who rejected the ...
, sometimes referred to as New IRA (1997–present)
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New IRA
The New Irish Republican Army, or New IRA, is a paramilitary organisation founded in July 2012. It was formed after the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) and other small Irish republican paramilitary grou ...
(2012–present)
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Islamabad Rugby Association
Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital ...
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Íslenskir Radíóamatörar
The Íslenskir Radíóamatörar, ÍRA, in English, Icelandic Radio Amateurs is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Iceland. Key membership benefits of the IRA include the sponsorship of amateur radio operating awa ...
, ÍRA, an amateur radio organization in Iceland
Places
United States
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Ira, Iowa
Ira () is an unincorporated community located in Independence Township, Jasper County, Iowa, United States. The population in 2010 was 29 people.
History
Ira was platted in 1883. It was originally called Millard. Ira's population was 20 in 1887 ...
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Ira Township, Michigan
Ira Township is a civil township of St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,178 at the 2010 Census.
Communities
Four unincorporated communities are within the township:
*Anchorville is on M-29 situated on northe ...
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Ira, Missouri Ira is an unincorporated community in northeastern Laclede County, in the Ozarks of south central Missouri. The community is located on Missouri Route E
A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated w ...
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Ira, New York
Ira is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The population was 2,145 at the 2020 census. The town is in the northern part of the county and is northwest of Syracuse.
History
Ira was part of the Central New York Military Tract. T ...
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Ira, Texas
Ira is an unincorporated community in Scurry County, Texas, United States. It lies in the southwestern corner of the county at the junction of State Highway 350 and Farm to Market Road 1606, 10 miles southwest of Snyder, and has an estimated po ...
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Hopewell, Red River County, Texas
Hopewell (also, Ira and Mulberry) is a former unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas, United States.
References
Geography of Red River County, Texas
Ghost towns in North Texas
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, formerly Ira
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Ira, Vermont
Elsewhere
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Ire (Iliad) Ira ( grc, Ἰρά), or Ire (Ἱρὴ), was a town of ancient Messenia, mentioned by Homer in the '' Iliad'', as one of the seven towns which Agamemnon offered to Achilles. It is identified with either the later Abia on the Messenian Gulf, or the ...
or Ira, a town mentioned in the Iliad
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Ira (Lesbos) Hiera ( grc, Ἱερά), also known as Iera or Ira (Ίρα), was a town of ancient Lesbos.
The site of Hiera is located near modern Perama
Perama ( el, Πέραμα) is a suburb of Piraeus. It is part of Athens urban area and belogs to the Pir ...
, a town of ancient Lesbos, Greece
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Eira (Messenia), or Ira, an ancient town of Messenia, Greece
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Eira, Messenia
Eira ( el, Είρα) is a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is locat ...
or Ira, a municipality in northern Messenia, Greece
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Ira, Mazandaran
Ira ( fa, ایرا, also Romanized as Īrā; also known as Iza) is a village in Bala Larijan Rural District, Larijan District, Amol County
Amol County ( fa, شهرستان آمل) is located in Mazandaran province, Mazandaran province, Iran. ...
, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
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Ira, Syria
′Ira ( ar, عرى; also spelled ''Areh'', ''′Ara'' or ''Ora'') is a village in southeastern Syria, administratively part of the as-Suwayda District of the as-Suwayda Governorate, located south of as-Suwayda. In the 2004 census, it had a populat ...
, a village in as-Suwayda Governorate, Syria
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Ira, Tehran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran
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Lielirbe or Īra, Latvia
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was a presidential republic that ruled Afghanistan from 2004 to 2021. The state was established to replace the Afghan interim (2001–2002) and transitional (2002–2004) administrations, which were form ...
, an Official name of Afghanistan in Exile.
Other uses
*''Ira'', Latin for wrath, one of the
seven deadly sins
The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings. Although they are not directly mentioned in the Bible, there are parallels with the seven things ...
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''Ira'' (film), a 2018 Indian (Malyalam) film
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Ira (mythology)
In Polynesian mythology, Ira is the sky goddess and mother of the star
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are v ...
, a goddess in Polynesian mythology
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''Ira'' (moth), a moth genus
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Irina or Ira, a given name
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Inherited runs allowed
This is an alphabetical list of selected unofficial and specialized terms, phrases, and other jargon used in baseball, along with their definitions, including illustrative examples for many entries.
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, a baseball statistic
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International Reference Alphabet
International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations".
International may also refer to:
Music Albums
* ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011
* ''International'' (New Order album), 2002
* ''International'' (The T ...
, a character encoding
*Ileorectal
Anastomosis
An anastomosis (, plural anastomoses) is a connection or opening between two things (especially cavities or passages) that are normally diverging or branching, such as between blood vessels, leaf veins, or streams. Such a connection may be norm ...
, surgery to join the ileum with the rectum
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