Ira

Ira or IRA may refer to:

Human names

• Ira (name), a Hebrew, Sanskrit, Russian or Finnish language personal name
• Ira (surname), a rare Estonian family name; occurs in some other languages
• Irina or Ira, a given name

Law and finance

• Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, US, on status of Native Americans
• Individual retirement account (or individual retirement arrangement), in the US, giving tax benefits
• Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a US budget reconciliation bill
• Internal Revenue Allotment, a local share of Philippines government revenue

Music

• Ira (Polish band), a Polish heavy metal band
• Ira!, a Brazilian rock band
• I.R.A. (band), a Colombian punk band
• One part of an Andean wind instrument, the siku

Organizations

Sport

• Intercollegiate Rowing Association, US
• International Racing Association, defunct US stock car racing league active in the 1980s
• Islamabad Rugby Association

Militant organizations

• Irish Republican Army, which has existed in various forms since 1917:
  • Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
  • Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
  • Official Irish Republican Army (1969–1972)
  • Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969–2005)
  • Continuity Irish Republican Army (1986/1994–present)
  • Real Irish Republican Army (1997–2012)
  • New IRA (2012–present)

In other fields

For bands, see § Music.

• Indian Rationalist Association
• Indian Rights Association, US, for Native Americans
• Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), a Mauritania anti-slavery group
• Instituto Riva-Agüero, in Peru
• Insurance Regulatory Authority (Kenya), the authority charged with regulation and supervision of Kenya's insurance industry
• Interim Regional Administration of Tigray (IRA), Tigray Region, Ethiopia
• International Reading Association, now the International Literacy Association
• Internet Research Agency or "The Trolls of Olgino", a Russian state-sponsored troll group
• Inverness Royal Academy, a secondary school in Inverness, Scotland
• Iran Air, an Iranian airline (ICAO designator IRA)
• Íslenskir Radíóamatörar, ÍRA, an amateur radio organization in Iceland

Places

Greece

• Ire (Iliad) or Ira, a town mentioned in the Iliad
• Ira (Lesbos), a town of ancient Lesbos
• Eira (Messenia), or Ira, an ancient town of Messenia
• Eira, Messenia or Ira, a municipality in northern Messenia

United States

• Ira, Iowa
• Ira Township, Michigan
• Ira, Missouri
• Ira, New York
• Ira, Texas
• Ira, Vermont

Elsewhere

• Ira, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Ira, Suwayda, a village in as-Suwayda Governorate, Syria
• Ira, Tehran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran
• Lielirbe or Īra, Latvia
• Ira, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia
• Iran (UNDP code IRA)
• Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, an official name of Afghanistan in exile

Other uses

• Ira, Latin for wrath, one of the seven deadly sins
• Ira (film), a 2018 Indian (Malayalam) film
• Ira (mythology), a goddess in Polynesian mythology
• Ira (moth), a genus
• Inherited runs allowed, a baseball statistic
• International Reference Alphabet, a character encoding
• Ileorectal anastomosis, surgery to join the ileum with the rectum