Free Stater

Free Stater

The term Free Stater may refer to:

* Free-Stater (Kansas), (antislavery) settlers in Kansas Territory in the 1850s
* Free-Stater (Ireland), those in Ireland who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
* a term informally used by some people in Northern Ireland to refer to residents of the Republic of Ireland
* a member of the Free State Project


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