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Topic: List of Northern Ireland districts by area


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  Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Therefore, after the First World War, 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 Ireland Act 1949 gave the first legal guarantee to the Parliament and Government that Northern Ireland would not cease to be part of the United Kingdom without consent of the majority of its citizens, and this was most recently reaffirmed by the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Six_counties   (4355 words)

  
 Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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." Gerrymandered towns and city boundaries rigged local government elections to ensure Protestant control of local councils.
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.
Once established under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, 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.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/n/no/northern_ireland.html   (2597 words)

  
 Ireland - Gurupedia
It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Ireland, an autonomous region of the United Kingdom.
Church of Ireland and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, are organised on an all-island basis.
92% of the population of the Republic of Ireland are Roman Catholic, and 40% in Northern Ireland.
www.gurupedia.com /i/ir/ireland.htm   (957 words)

  
 IRELAND - LoveToKnow Article on IRELAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The northern coalfields are the L. Carboniferous one at Ballycastle, the high outliers of Millstone Grit and Coal-Measures round Lough Allen, and the Dungannon and Coalisland field in county Tyrone.
As the Atlantic spread into the valleys on the west of Ireland, forming the well-known marine inlets, Europe grew, under the influence of the Alpine movements, upon the east; and Ireland was caught in, as it were, on the western edge of the new continent.
Ireland is represented in the House of Lords by 28 temporal peers elected for life from among the Irish peers.
60.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IR/IRELAND.htm   (14356 words)

  
 CAIN: Glossary of Terms on Northern Ireland Conflict
In the Report of the New Ireland Forum published on 2 May 1984 one of the proposals for the future governance of Northern Ireland was for joint authority (joint sovereignty) over the region by Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
Londonderry, or Derry, is the second largest city in Northern Ireland and is situated in the west of the region close to the border with the Republic of Ireland.
See list of previous Secretaries of State.) In the absence of a devolved assembly in the region the NIO was also responsible for the operation of the ten (previously six) Northern Ireland Departments.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/glossary.htm   (18387 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Northern Ireland is divided into 26 local government districts, which are unitary authorities.
The current pattern of local government in Northern Ireland, with 26 unitary districts, was established in 1973 to replace the previous system established by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
For local government, Northern Ireland was previously divided into six counties and two county boroughs, with various rural districts and urban districts in the counties.
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Districts_of_Northern_Ireland   (169 words)

  
 CAIN: Events: Convention: Government of Northern Ireland: A Society Divided
Northern Ireland is by no means unique in having a community which is divided.
In Northern Ireland there is both a Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, concerned with complaints against central government, and a Commissioner for Complaints, concerned with local authorities and public bodies.
This, indeed, is the type of condition embodied in the Northern Ireland Constitution At 1973, by which the Secretary of Stare is required to appoint an Executive which, in his view, will be widely accepted throughout the community and represent a basis for government by consent.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /hmso/nio1975.htm   (6629 words)

  
 The MOUT Homepage
Substantial British military involvement in Northern Ireland began in August of 1969 when the Army intervened “in assistance of civil authorities” after large-scale sectarian rioting in Belfast and Londonderry revealed the inability of the police to maintain public order.
Despite the British military headquarters in Northern Ireland officially promulgating minimum force/maximum respect for the law policies through its “Yellow Card” rules of engagement, there is strong evidence suggesting that at times security forces in the field actually operated on a shoot-on-sight basis at their own initiative.
Patrols in Northern Ireland were high-profile affairs whose main function initially was to reassure public and to assert Government authority, especially in the so-called “No-Go” areas which were declared off-limits to the police by paramilitary forces in some parts of Belfast and Londonderry.
www.geocities.com /Pentagon/6453/nireland.html   (6114 words)

  
 Londonderry, Northern IrelandGenWeb Project
Administratively merged in 1969, the old city area and adjacent urban and rural areas later became one of Northern Ireland's 26 districts during local government reorganization in 1973; the district and city is officially referred to as Londonderry City.
It is bordered by the districts of Limavady to the east and Strabane to the south, the Irish Republic to the west, and Lough (inlet of the sea) Foyle to the north.
Salmon are commercially fished in the tidal portions of the River Foyle; and sheep, barley, and poultry are raised by farmers in the district.
www.rootsweb.com /~nirldy   (1258 words)

  
 birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
While Ireland`s western geographical location is not ideal for many European migrants, it is perfect for the occurrence of many North American species swept across the Atlantic on their long migration from northeast Canada.
County Tipperary occupies a broad strip of inland Ireland between Lough Derg and the River Shannon to the west, the River Suir to the South and the Little Brosna River on the northeast.
The IRBC is responsible for maintaining a list of the birds recorded in the Republic of Ireland.
www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/europe/ireland.html   (4331 words)

  
 Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area.
Local Councils in Northern Ireland by community make-up
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Northern_Ireland_districts_by_area   (67 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | New Florida vote scandal feared
The list of Jacksonville voters covers an area with a majority of fl residents.
When asked by Newsnight for an explanation of the list, Republican spokespersons claim the list merely records returned mail from either fundraising solicitations or returned letters sent to newly registered voters to verify their addresses for purposes of mailing campaign literature.
Republican state campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher stated the list was not put together "in order to create" a challenge list, but refused to say it would not be used in that manner.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm   (587 words)

  
 A list of Art Deco Books  from A
Listed here first are those general works on art deco that are reasonably easy to find, with some brief comments.
Works on individual artists are not listed - for wider references, there are good bibliographies / or citations in the works specially marked below with a *.
Some of the growing series of booklets on particular districts of Brussels, published by the Brussels Regional Authority, have useful sections on art deco in particular areas.
www.geocities.com /Paris/Salon/6941/bib.htm   (2233 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Add to that the challenge of identifying the many civil and ecclesiastical divisions that hold records for the area where the ancestors resided, and soon the head spins with parish names and boundary lines.
This provides a more complete vision of what entities had jurisdiction over the areas where their ancestors lived, giving readers a much better idea of where to look for genealogical records.
Since civil registration for everyone in Ireland didn't begin until 1864, A New Genealogical Atlas Of Ireland is an extremely useful reference for tracing ancestors who lived prior to 1864.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0806316845   (552 words)

  
 Louth, IrelandGenWeb Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The smallest county in Ireland, with an area of 317 sq mi (821 sq km), it is bounded on the north by Northern Ireland, on the east by the Irish Sea, on the south and west by County Meath, and on the northwest by County Monaghan.
Most of Louth is part of a central lowland, generally about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, and occurrences of glacial drift are found everywhere.
Some list archives are not available; if there is a link here to an archive but the link doesn't work, it probably just means that no messages have been posted to that list yet.
www.irelandgenweb.com /louth.html   (484 words)

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