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  Saint Patrick's Day Parade -  History of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is sometimes called Ulster because it includes six of the nine counties that made up the early Celtic kingdom, or province, of Ulster.
Northern Ireland's temperate, maritime climate is dominated by low-pressure Atlantic storm systems, which cause cool and humid conditions that keep the country green in all seasons.
Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, is represented by 11 members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons in Westminster.
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  History of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1922, Northern Ireland was formed from six of the nine counties of Ulster and, together with Great Britain, forms the present United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland is now, once more, run by the Direct Rule Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, and a British ministerial team answerable to him.
Similarly, on visits to Northern Ireland, the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, met with unionist ministers and with the local Lord Lieutenant of each county, the representative of the Queen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Northern_Ireland   (3109 words)

  
 Northern Ireland Portion @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Northern Ireland was created out of the continuation of the Act of Union 1800, when it became part of the United Kingdom.
The flag of Northern Ireland was based on the Ulster flag, the cross of Saint Patrick and the Saint Andrew cross.
Northern Ireland was covered by an 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.
www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Northern_Ireland   (4201 words)

  
 History of Northern Ireland: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Northern Ireland's capital city is Belfast (Belfast: Capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland).
The IRA was unimpressed, increasing the tempo of their violence, while unionists were outraged at the participation of nationalists in the government of Northern Ireland and at the cross-border Council of Ireland (Council of Ireland: the council of ireland may refer to one of two councils, one proposed and one implemented...
The changing climate in Northern Ireland was represented by the visit of Queen Elizabeth II (Queen Elizabeth II: queen elizabeth ii (elizabeth alexandra mary) (born 21 april 1926), styled her...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/history_of_northern_ireland   (3886 words)

  
 Ireland - Catholic Church Local History and Ancestors Genealogy Research
Brief History of the Diocese of Killaloe and the Parish of Killaloe.
The History of Franciscan Ballymote Abbey - Ballymote, County Sligo.
Parishes of the Archdiocese of Dublin and Ireland
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 History of Northern Ireland
Ireland was partitioned in 1921 under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 between six of the nine Ulster counties in the northeast (forming Northern Ireland) and the remaining twenty-six counties of the south and west (forming the Irish Free State in 1922).
The conflict in Northern Ireland stems from a history of British rule, historical animosity between Catholics and Protestants, and the various armed and political attempts to unite Northern Ireland with the rest of the island.
Northern Ireland had its own Parliament and prime minister from 1921 to 1973, when the British Government imposed direct rule in order to deal with the deteriorating political and security situation.
www.historyofnations.net /europe/northernireland.html   (923 words)

  
 Close Up Foundation | Civic Education | Washington DC Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The history of Northern Ireland is a tortured one.
This division, and the history of discrimination against Catholics in the North, are the root cause of the strife.
To the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast, September 3, 1998.
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 PlanetPapers - Clash Of Neighbours: The History Behind Northern Ireland Tensions
Northern Ireland remained a quiet area until 1641, when the Irish Gaelic clans organized a rebellion to expel the settlers from their land.
Ireland was now allowed to send one hundred MP’s to the House of Commons in London, and thirty-two peers to the House of Lords.8 This act only harboured deeper resentment from the Catholic community.
This history rings are painfully true in the ears and hearts of those living in Northern Ireland today.
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 Northern Ireland – History and Current Status of “The Troubles”
Ireland had now taken on strategic importance and was raised to the constitutional status of a Kingdom to assert royal power.
Strand One deals with institutional arrangements in Northern Ireland; Strand Two with the relationships between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and Strand Three with the relationships between both parts of Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
A copy of the Agreement was sent to very house in Ireland and was ratified in joint referenda on 22 May 1998 with 71.12% in Northern Ireland and 94.4% in the Republic creating an all-Ireland majority of 85.4% in favour.
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 The Northern Irish Conflict: A Chronology
The history of Northern Ireland can be traced back to the 17th century, when the English finally succeeded in subduing the island after successfully putting down a number of rebellions.
International recognition and support for peace in Northern Ireland came on Oct. 16, 1998, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to John Hume and David Trimble, the leaders of the largest Catholic and Protestant political parties, respectively, in Northern Ireland.
Local government is restored to Northern Ireland as Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionists, and Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Fein, are sworn in as leader and deputy leader, respectively, of the Northern Ireland executive government.
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 Short History of northern Ireland
While this isn't a full history of northern Ireland it does introduce us to the region and some of the background for understand a little more about the area in which our John Nickell is suspected to have been born.
While the revolution in England had been practically bloodless, in Ireland it was a long, horrible and bloody conflict that ended only when James 11 was defeated by the Orange forces under William at the Battle of Boyne in 1699.
In 1760, an appeal was made to the Ulster Presbyterians to contribute to the relief of their brethren in the New World, who were suffering the hardships of poverty aggravated by the miseries of the Indian war; and the former, "out of their deep poverty," raised upwards of 400 pounds for the purpose.
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 Northern Ireland: History
Northern Ireland's relatively distinct history began in the early 17th cent., when, after the suppression of an Irish rebellion, much land was confiscated by the British crown and “planted” with Scottish and English settlers.
The Government of Ireland Act of 1920 attempted to solve the problem by enacting Home Rule separately for the two parts of Ireland, thus creating the province of Northern Ireland.
An assembly formed in 1982 to propose plans for strengthening legislative and executive autonomy in Northern Ireland was dissolved in 1986 for its lack of progress.
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 BBC News | Northern Ireland | Key events in Northern Ireland history
December: Internment is lifted by the new Northern Ireland Secretary, Labour's Merlyn Rees.
March: Airey Neave, Conservative MP and shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, is killed by a bomb attached to his car in the House of Commons car park by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, an IRA splinter group.
August: Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew bans loyalist Apprentice Boys from marching along contentious sections of Londonderry's city walls for the traditional Siege of Derry celebration.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/northern_ireland/10657.stm   (2516 words)

  
 Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Examines three major themes of Catholic education in Northern Ireland: Catholic authorities' efforts to keep control of their schools between 1921 and 1993; the impact of the GAELIC features of Catholic schools on education policy; and the Catholic authorities' response to recent campaigns for integrated schools.
Midwest Book Review: This survey of the politics and social history of Ireland from 1921-1993 is written by three of the country's top historians, tackling stereotypes and providing an unusually well-balanced view of the many forces influencing the divisions between different classes and religions in the country.
History Expert Editor's Recommended Book, 03/01/97: The Troubles--a collective term for the sectarian violence and near-ritual murder that has plagued Northern Ireland for the last quarter century--can be laid at the door of a small group of terrorists, republican and loyalist, whose influence far exceeds its number.
www.pacificnet.net /~ianet/Bookstore/nireland.html   (4392 words)

  
 the history of northern ireland NEWS, THE BUZZ, ARTICLES & MORE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tracking down the best Free the history of northern ireland online isn't an easy undertaking, which is why we planned this search site for you.
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Northern Virginia Daily - The Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia is a living history site and an educational agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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 History of NORTHERN IRELAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ulster, the most Protestant region of Ireland since the 17th century, is where the union with Britain has its most passionate supporters.
The partition of Ireland is to be accepted as a necessary compromise, but both southern Ireland (twenty-six counties) and northern Ireland (the six counties of northeast Ulster) are now to have their own parliaments with limited devolved powers.
In northern Ireland the new parliament is now functioning, and there has been talk of accommodation of some kind with the south.
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 History of Northern Ireland
Children in Northern Ireland must forge their lives fighting against hundreds of years of hatred that has been ingrained in them since they were old enough to conceive the notion.
With the Act of Union in 1800, Ireland and Britain were unified under one Parliament and one constitution, thus giving the Protestants full rule over the area.
This treaty separated Northern Ireland from the Irish Free State, known since 1948 as the Republic of Ireland.
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 A brief history of Northern Ireland 1919 - 1999 | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
The Government of Ireland Act establishes the principle of two parliaments in Dublin and Belfast, to be subordinate to the London parliament.
The Ireland Act rules that the Republic is no longer a British dominion, but Northern Ireland will remain part of the UK unless its parliament agrees otherwise.
The blossoming relationship between Britain and Ireland is reinforced when the secretary-general of the Commonwealth signals that Ireland would now be a "very welcome member" of the ex-colonials club, 49 years after it left.
www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,209091,00.html   (1886 words)

  
 Northern Ireland - History of Derry
The claim that he founded Derry is less certain, although that monastery definitely belonged to the federation of Columban churches which looked to Colmcille as their spiritual founder and leader.
The famous skeleton on the city's coat-of-arms is said to depict the association with another aristocratic family, the Norman de Burgos, who built their great fortress at Greencastle at the entrance to Lough Foyle.
George Berkeley, Ireland's most important philosopher, was Dean of Derry (1724-33), and another well-known and eccentric cleric, Frederick Augustus Hervey, the Earl of Bristol, was Bishop of Derry (1768-1803).
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 Ireland HQ : History Ireland
Irish history of Ireland from a labour (ie communist, anarchist...
Illustrated Irish history magazine suitable for the scholar and the general reader.Feature articles from all periods of history, books reviews, news, events.
Ireland HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
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 Ireland, Northern - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
The New Northern Ireland Assembly has limited devolved powers from the British Parliament, and often has been suspended since its establishment in 1999.
The government is based on a power-sharing arrangement that requires that its members include a minimum number of both Protestants and Catholics, and that those members have the support of the representatives elected by their respective communities.
Northern Ireland has 18 representatives in the British Parliament.
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 11c Northern Ireland History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After lengthy negotiations the boundary between the Irish Free Stateand Northern Ireland was fixed.
Irish Free State was renamed Eire (Ireland) and became a republic.Beginning of an IRA campaign to
Ireland was renamed the Republic of Ireland and left the Commonwealth.The Ireland Bill guaranteed the
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 Category:History of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The main article for this category is History of Northern Ireland.
Government of Ireland Act 1920 (Parliamentary and Dáil constituencies)
List of members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
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 NI Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It aims to provide a single gateway to genealogical sources for those researching their family history in Northern Ireland.
Online sources of genealogical information in Northern Ireland are limited and, where possible, links to these sources will be provided, otherwise the links will be to the websites of organisations which hold the primary, or occasionally secondary, sources.
The Quick Guide gives you a summary of the main sources of genealogical information in Northern Ireland and is a good start when you are researching your family history.
www.nireland.com /genealogy   (183 words)

  
 Allin1 Travel Ireland - A Brief History of Northern Ireland
On Friday 10th April 1999, Good Friday, a comprehensive agreement is reached between the parties containing provisions for constitutional change and new political structure in Northern Ireland, between Ireland North and South and between Britain and Ireland.
On May 22nd 1998 in referendums North and South, the people of Ireland give their overwhelming endorsement of the Agreement, the first occasion since 1918 in which all of the people of Ireland voted together to decide their political future.
On December 12th 1999, the same day on which power was devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive, The British and Irish Governments exchanged notifications bringing the British and Irish agreement into force.
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