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	Government of Ireland Act, 1920 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Act, introduced by the government of David Lloyd George, divided Ireland into two territories, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, each intended to be self-governing except in areas specifically reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom: chief amongst these were matters relating to the Crown, to defence, foreign affairs, international trade, and currency.
		"Southern Ireland" was to be all of Ireland except for "the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry" which were to constitute "Northern Ireland".
		Northern Ireland as defined by the Act, amounting to six of the nine counties of Ulster, was seen as the maximum area within which Unionists could be expected to have a safe majority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Government_of_Ireland_Act_1920 (968 words)

	Parliament of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Parliament of Northern Ireland was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons with 52 seats, and an indirectly-elected Senate with 26 seats.
		The Government of Ireland Act prescribed that elections to the House of Commons be by the Single Transferable Vote (STV), though the Parliament was given power to alter the electoral system from three years after its first meeting.
		The STV system was the subject of criticism from grassroots Unionists but because the three year period ended during the Labour government of 1924, the Stormont government decided not to provoke the known egalitarian sympathies of many Labour backbenchers and held the second election on the same basis.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland (1551 words)

	Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 a piece of legislation passed as an Act of Parliament by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1898, to establish a system of local government in Ireland on lines similar that had been recently created in Great Britain at the time.
		This act brought in a mixed system of government, with county boroughs independent of county administratation, and elsewhere a two tier system with county councils, along with borough, urban district and rural district councils.
		In Northern Ireland, the provisions of the act were replaced in the 1970s with a pattern of unitary authorities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Local_Government_(Ireland)_Act_1898 (254 words)

	HOME RULE ACT 1914 FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Government of Ireland Act 1914, more generally known as the Third Home Rule Act (or Bill) or the (Irish) Home Rule Act 1914, was an Act_of_Parliament passed by the British_House_of_Commons in May 1914 which granted Ireland national self-government within the United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland.
		The Liberals held on to government, and with the agreement both of the late king, Edward VII and the new king, George V threatened to swamp the Lords with sufficient new Liberal peers to give the Government a majority.
		Six counties of the northeast of Ireland (roughly two thirds of Ulster), where there was a safe Protestant majority, were to be excluded "temporarily" from the territory of the new Irish parliament and government and to continue to be governed as before from Westminster and Whitehall.
	www.gottagetflowers.com /Home_Rule_Act_1914 (1987 words)

	Northern Ireland - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ulster is one of the historic provinces of the island of Ireland, consisting of 9 counties.
		Northern Ireland became, in the words of Nobel Peace Prize joint-winner, Ulster Unionist Leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland[?] David Trimble, a "cold place for catholics." Towns and cities were gerrymandered to rig local government elections to ensure Protestant control of town councils.
		When it was established under the Government of Ireland Act, Northern Ireland was structured geographically so as to have a unionist majority, unionist fears as to what would happen to them forming the basis for their opposition to a united Ireland[?], which led to creation of the two Irish states.
	openproxy.ath.cx /no/Northern_Ireland.html (1551 words)

	Unionists (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Home Rule Act 1914 passed (or at least passed all stages under the Parliament Act, 1911, which curbed the veto power of the Lords) but never came into force, due to the onset of World War I (1914–18).
		Some also feared that they would experience a similar sort of discrimination that the Protestant Parliament of Ireland up to 1800 had practised on Irish Catholics and nationalists, namely the notorious Penal Laws, or the more subtle discrimination that followed, although this is hard to credit as Ireland would have remained part of the UK.
		One of the strangest events in Northern Ireland is that the anti-Catholic right-wing Protestant leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Rev. Ian Paisley, attracts some Catholic votes in his constituency in elections to the British and European Parliaments (he serves in both).
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Unionists_(Ireland) (2249 words)

	Southern Ireland biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This Act formally and controversially partitioned the island of Ireland into two states, Northern Ireland (covering approximately fifteen percent of the island, to the north) and Southern Ireland (covering the remaining territory to the south, east and west).
		The Government of Ireland Act, also known as the Fourth Home Rule Act was intended to provide a solution to the problem that had bedevilled Irish politics since the 1880s, namely the conflicting demands of Irish unionists and Irish nationalists.
		Partition, which was introduced in the Government of Ireland Act, was intended as a temporary solution to the problem, allowing Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland to be separately governed as regions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
	southern-ireland.biography.ms (914 words)

	History of the Northern Ireland Parliament
		The Parliament of Northern Ireland was established by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, a piece of legislation that was intended to establish a partition of Ireland and create two devolved Parliaments within the United Kingdom.
		However the institutions of the Parliament of Southern Ireland were stillborn: none of the seats in the Southern Ireland House of Commons were contested and Sinn Féin won all the territorial constituencies.
		The Government of Ireland Act prescribed that elections to the House of Commons be by the single transferable vote, though the Parliament was given power to alter the electoral system from three years after its first meeting.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /stormont/intro.html (1512 words)

	The Road to Peace - NORAID Online
		No Irishman from any part of Ireland voted for this statute, for even the unionists -- the 22% of the population who approved of union with Britain and most of whom lived within 35 miles of Belfast -- did not want their country to be divided.
		While the Government of Ireland Bill was passing through Westminster in 1920, the Black and Tan War was escalating throughout Ireland and in the north-east of the country, the unionist forces set about preparing to establish the 6-county fifedom handed to them by the Bill.
		Acting Sinn Fein President Arthur Griffith replied: "This was not a Truce but surrender, and there would be be no surrender, no matter what frightfulness was used." As the war intensified into 1921, with no let up in republican resistance, Lloyd George was forced to forget that precondition to talks.
	www.inac.org /roadtopeace/partition.html (2202 words)

	ipedia.com: Government of Ireland Act 1920 Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An Act to Provide for the Better Government of Ireland, more usually The Government of Ireland Act, 1920' (its official short title) was the second act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to provide for Irish home rule.
		The bills of 1886, 1893 were never passed, and the act of 1914 was almost immediately suspended because of the First World War and then the Easter Rising in 1916, and never came into force.
		The act was repealed in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
	www.ipedia.com /government_of_ireland_act_1920.html (652 words)

	Irish Government Bill 1893 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An all-Ireland parliament would be set up to control domestic affairs.
		This bill was different from the first bill that Gladstone introduced in 1886 because it allowed for the eighty Irish MPs to vote in Westminster but only on bills that affected Ireland.
		The Bill was passed by the House of Commons on 1 September 1893, by 301 votes to 297.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Irish_Government_Bill_1893 (283 words)

	Parliament Of Northern Ireland Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1968 the government abolished the Queen's University constituency (long after university constituencies had been abolished at Westminster) and created four new constituencies in the outskirts of Belfast where populations had grown.
		The British monarch was initially represented as head of state by a Lord Lieutenant, although this was replaced by the office of Governor of Northern Ireland from December 12, 1922.
		As at Westminster, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland was the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons, always the Ulster Unionist Party.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland (1968 words)

	Socialist Party publications - Troubled Times Chapter 6 Partition carried through
		This is the real meaning of the deliberations of the special cabinet committee, and of the Government of Ireland Act which implemented their main proposals and brought about partition.
		As the Government of Ireland Act made its way through the Westminster parliament in 1920, unionists in Ulster prepared for its implementation by a ferocious assault on the labour movement and a determined effort to break the unity of the working class.
		On December 23rd the Government of Ireland Act became law amid a sustained effort to subdue the southern counties by force.
	www.geocities.com /socialistparty/Publications/TTCh6.htm (2603 words)

	PARLIAMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Sovereign was represented by the Governor, who granted Royal_Assent to Acts of Parliament in Northern Ireland, but executive power rested with the Prime Minister, the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons.
		During World_War_II, the Stormont government called on Westminster to introduce conscription several times, as this was already the case in Britain.
		The pervasive influence of the Orange_Order in the governance of Northern Ireland was far-reaching.
	www.gottaorderflowers.com /Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland (1652 words)

	The Partition of Ireland and its' effect on the Postal Service
		The Government of Ireland Act, 1920, sought to establish two distinct Parliaments in Ireland, one for the 6 northern counties predominantly opposed to Home Rule, and one for the 26 southern counties.
		While this Act was being enacted, the military struggle escalated, with martial law being declared for part of the south on 10th December 1920.
		In early 1922 there were two distinct forms of government in Ireland; on the one hand was Dáil Éireann which represented the Parliament of the Republic, and on the other hand was the Southern Ireland Parliament which represented the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State; there were even two different sets of ministers.
	www.cartref.demon.co.uk /eng/stamps/eire01.htm (2141 words)

	CAIN: Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971
		(1) Northern Ireland shall for the purposes of local government be divided into twenty-six districts to be known as local government districts and shall be so divided that each local government district incorporates the whole or the major part of one of the places specified in Schedule 1.
		This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and shall be construed as one with the Local Government Acts (Northern Ireland) 1898 to 1968 and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Local Government Acts (Northern Ireland) 1898 to 1971.
		As far as practicable a local government district shall not be wholly or substantially severed by the boundary of another local government district and shall not be wholly or substantially encompassed within the boundary of another local government district.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /hmso/lgba1971.htm (1416 words)

	Local Government (Best Value) Act (Northern Ireland) 2002
		Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly printed from this website are printed under the superintendence and authority of the Controller of HMSO being the Government Printer for Northern Ireland.
		It should be noted that the right to reproduce the text of Acts does not extend to the Government Printer for Northern Ireland imprints which should be removed from any copies of the Act which are issued or made available to the public.
		An Act to make provision placing on district councils a general duty to make arrangements for continuous improvement in the way in which their functions are exercised; and for connected purposes.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /legislation/northernireland/acts/acts2002/20020004.htm (1083 words)

	Government of Ireland Act 1920 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This partitioning of Ireland was an attempt by the British Government to reconcile the demand by Irish nationalists, on the one hand, for home rule and that by Irish unionists, on the other, that home rule not be conceded.
		At its inauguration, in, King George V made a famous appeal for Anglo-Irish and north–south reconciliation.
		Text of the Act as applied in Northern Ireland (http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/politics/docs/goi231220.htm#1)
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Government_of_Ireland_Act_1920 (952 words)

	BBC - History - Northern Ireland and the treaty 1921 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Under the Government of Ireland Act, Northern Ireland came into being in the spring of 1921.
		'I speak from a full heart when I pray that my coming to Ireland today may prove to be the first step towards an end of strife amongst her people, whatever their race or creed', he said.
		Craig's main objection to the accord was Article 12, which provided for a boundary commission to revise the border of Northern Ireland.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/ni/ni_treaty.shtml (291 words)

	Articles - Anglo-Irish Treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The treaty was signed in London by representatives of the British government and envoys plenipotentiary of the Irish Republic (i.e., negotiators empowered to sign a treaty without reference back to their superiors) on December 6, 1921.
		Northern Ireland (which had been created earlier by the Government of Ireland Act) was to have the option of withdrawing from the Irish Free State within one month of the Treaty coming into effect.
		Although the British government of the day had, since 1914, desired home rule for the whole of Ireland, the British Parliament believed that it could not possibly grant complete independence to all of Ireland in 1921 without provoking a massacre of Ulster Catholics at the hands of their heavily-armed Protestant Unionist neighbours.
	lastring.com /articles/Anglo-Irish_Treaty?mySession=46d6d798a3205f07... (1321 words)

	Workers Weekly Vol. 29 No. 23, December 11, 1999
		The republican movement in the north of Ireland has refused to be phased by the continual inability and refusal of the English bourgeoisie to find a peaceful solution to ending the partition of Ireland.
		As disillusionment with the government grows and opposition to globalisation becomes more conscious, it is the people whom the bourgeoisie is blaming for the growing crisis and insisting they shoulder responsibility for it and let society off the hook.
		Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson arrived in Washington on December 6 to brief White House officials and politicians on the implementation of the Northern Ireland peace accord.
	www.rcpbml.org.uk /ww99/ww29-23.htm (3165 words)

	Northern Ireland Act 1998
		The Northern Ireland Act 1998 received the Royal Assent on the 19 November 1998.
		After Acts of the Assembly have come into force, their competence can be questioned in any proceedings, but the matters may then be referred to the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland with appeal or reference from it to the Judicial Committee (section 79 and Schedule 10).
		This part further provides for attendance by Northern Ireland Ministers at relevant meetings of the British-Irish intergovernmental Conference (section 54) and for the Secretary of State to make orders conferring functions and powers on the initial, agreed implementation bodies (ie bodies which are to take executive functions covering both north and south) (section 55).
	www.leeds.ac.uk /law/hamlyn/ni98.htm (1024 words)

	Westminster elections in NI since 1920
		In the 1918 general election, 105 MPs were elected for the whole of Ireland, of whom 30 represented constituencies in the six counties which formed Northern Ireland after the 1920 Government of Ireland Act.
		The 1920 Government of Ireland Act drastically reduced the number of Irish MPs in Westminster, and the independence of the Irish Free State reduced them still further to those representing constituencies in Northern Ireland.
		The very idea of holding elections as a run-up to multi-party peace talks in 1996 was controversial and is believed by some to have contributed to the resumption of violence by the IRA in February of that year.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/hwest.htm (3449 words)

	LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1946 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 (as adapted by the Local Government (Adaptation of Irish Enactments) Order, 1899).
		The words "subsection (9) of in section 2; section 17 the words " and every such application shall, for the purposes of section thirteen of the said Act, be deemed to be a notice of appeal in section 19; the words and thirteen "in subsection (2) of section 20 section 23.
		Local Government (Ireland) Act (1898) Amendment Act, 1906.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /gen241946a.html (410 words)

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