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  Encyclopedia: Alliance Party of Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alliance expressly aimed to act as a bridge between the Protestant and Catholic sections of the community, with a secondary goal of attracting support from Northern Ireland's Jewish community and its small but steadily growing Asian (Chinese, Indian, Pakistani) population, the vast majority of whom are neither Catholic nor Protestant.
Alliance was seriously damaged by the IRA Hunger Strike of 1981, which deeply polarised Northern Ireland politics, and indirectly led to the emergence of Sinn Féin as a serious political force.
Communist Party of Ireland The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley.
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 Northern Ireland - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Northern Ireland has been a part of the United Kingdom since 1801 under the terms of the Act of Union, under which the Kingdom of Ireland came under the direct rule of Westminster.
Ireland was partitioned in 1921 under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland (which became the Irish Free State in 1922).
Northern Ireland was covered by the ice sheet for most of the last ice age and on numerous previous occasions, the legacy of which can be seen in the extensive coverage of drumlins in Counties Fermanagh, Armagh, Antrim and particularly Down.
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 Northern Ireland - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Northern Ireland lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland.
Northern Ireland was created in 1921 as a home-rule political entity, under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, along with the nominal state of Southern Ireland, which was superseded almost immediately after its creation by the Irish Free State.
As a consequence, self-government for Northern Ireland was suspended in 1972.
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 Read about Northern Ireland at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Northern Ireland and learn about Northern Ireland ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Northern Ireland Executive comprising representatives of all the main parties.
Flag of Northern Ireland is the Union Flag of the United Kingdom.
Seamus Mallon was criticised by unionists for always calling the state the "North of Ireland" while Sinn Féin has been criticised in the media in the Republic for continuing to call the state the "Six Counties" even after it signed up to the Belfast Agreement and sat in the government of Northern Ireland.
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 ipedia.com: Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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In 1979 Party Leader Oliver Napier came closer than Alliance have come before or since to electing a Westminster MP, polling just 928 votes short of Peter Robinson's winning total in East Belfast.
New leader, John Alderdice, polled 32.0% of the vote in East Belfast, while Alliance came within 15,000 votes of both the DUP and Sinn Féin across Northern Ireland.
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