Ireland is 1,197 times larger than Manhattan (NYC borough).
Area: 70,273 km2 World Factbook
Population: 4,832,765 (July 2014) World Factbook
Ireland, also commonly referred to as the Republic of Ireland, is a sovereign state in Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. Wikipedia
Area: 59 km2 calculated
Manhattan is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coterminous with New York County, an original county of the U.S. state of New York. Wikipedia