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{{Short description|Village in Latvia}}
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| native_name        = [[Livonian language|Livonian]]: ''Īra''
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| subdivision_name1  = [[Ventspils Municipality]]
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| subdivision_name2  = [[Tārgale Parish]]
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| established_date   = 1387
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'''Lielirbe''' ([[Livonian language|Livonian]]: ''Īra'') is a populated place in [[Tārgale Parish]], [[Ventspils Municipality]], [[Latvia]]. It is one of the twelve [[Livonians|Livonian]] villages on ''Līvõd rānda'' - the [[Livonian Coast]]. The name from Latvian translates to 'Great Irbe (River)', since the [[Irbe (river)|Irbe]] flows in to the [[Baltic Sea]] at the village.
Most homes in the village are not inhabited year-round after the Livonian Coast was made into a closed border area of the [[Iron Curtain]] for fifty years during the [[Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet occupation of Latvia]].
== Notable people ==
Born in Lielirbe:
*Mārtiņš Lepste ([[Livonian language|Livonian]]:  Maŗt Lepst ) (1881-1958) — Livonian sailor and teacher on the Liv coast in 1923–1938, chairman of the Livonian Union in 1924–1933.<ref>"The teaching of Livonian in the coast schools was undertaken by the Livonian sailor Maŗt Lepst, who ended up riding on horseback from town to town, teaching at each school one day a week." [http://virtuallivonia.info/?page_id=130 Virtual Livonia. History. The Second National Awakening.]</ref>
*Didriķis Blūms (1893-1970) — conductor of Lielirbe choir.
*Emīlija Rulle (1910-1989) — a poet.
*Valda Blūma-Šuvcāne (1923-2007) — researcher of the Livonian culture and history.
== References ==
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==See also==
*[[Livonian people]]
{{Livonian villages}}
[[Category:Populated places in Ventspils Municipality]]
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