In English, the revolutionary state was to be known as the "Irish Republic". Two different Irish language titles were used: and , based on two alternative Irish translations of the word "republic". The word was newly coined by the writers of the Easter Proclamation in 1916. was a compound word, based on the Irish words ("free") and ("state"). Its literal translation was "free state". The term is the one used in the Proclamation of 1916, but the Declaration of Independence and other documents adopted in 1919 used .