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	Ireland - MSN Encarta
		Resentment in Ireland over British rule mounted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and a movement for home rule (self-government on domestic matters) gathered force.
		It provided one parliament for the six counties of the predominantly Protestant north (Northern Ireland) and another for the remaining 26 counties in the overwhelmingly Catholic south.
		Elections for a provisional Dáil were held in June 1922, and candidates supporting the Anglo-Irish Treaty won a majority of seats.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566701_10____29/Ireland.html (2355 words)

	IRELAND FACTS AND HISTORY
		Judicial authority in Ireland is vested in a supreme court, a high court, a court of criminal appeal, and circuit and district courts.
		By the terms of the treaty, all of Ireland except the six counties constituting Northern Ireland was to receive dominion status identical with that of Canada.
		Republic of Ireland, On Easter Monday, April 18, 1949, by the terms of the Republic of Ireland Bill approved by the Dáil in November 1948, Eire became the Republic of Ireland, formally free of allegiance to the British crown and the Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/irelandhistory/1998.html (5493 words)

	ireland.com / Charles J Haughey // 1925-2006
		The Arms Trial of 1970, in which he was acquitted of attempting to import weapons for use in Northern Ireland while Minister for Finance, cast a long shadow over his career and made him forever untouchable to the unionist community and suspect to the British government.
		And yet his determination to change the status of relations between British and Ireland and to remodel the "failed political entity" that was Northern Ireland did have an effect.
		She described a suggestion that the internal government of Northern Ireland and its constitutional status could be affected as "damaging and counter-productive".
	www.ireland.com /focus/haughey/ITstories/story9.htm (1278 words)

	Embassy of Ireland - Washington, DC
		The island of Ireland consists of a large central lowland of limestone with a relief of hills and several coastal mountains.
		Ireland never experienced the barbarian invasions of the early medieval period and, partly as a result, the sixth and seventh centuries saw a flowering of Irish art, learning and culture centring on the Irish monasteries.
		The descendants of the Norman settlers in Ireland, who came to be called the Old English, were, by and large, hostile to the Protestant reformation which led to the establishment of the Church of Ireland.
	www.irelandemb.org /info.html (5391 words)

	ETHNIC CONFLICT AND THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION :: John Coakley
		The political partition of Ireland was one of the more traumatic aspects of the manner in which the island's relationship with Great Britain was restructured at the beginning of the twentieth century, and a defining movement in the relationship between the two islands.
		Instead, it proposed to allocate two predominantly nationalist counties to Northern Ireland, with a view to increasing the territory and population of that state to the maximum level that could comfortably be controlled by the unionist majority (the settlement thus left an overall Catholic minority of 34.4% within Northern Ireland).
		Furthermore, the government of the Republic of Ireland appeared to be moving towards acceptance of partition in the long term; this was implicit in the first-ever visit of the southern prime minister (taoiseach), Sean Lemass, to meet his Northern Ireland counterpart in 1965.
	www.passia.org /seminars/2004/John-Coakley-Ireland-Seminar.htm (8060 words)

	The 1900s
		The Northern Ireland census counted a population of 1,280,000.
		The Northern Ireland census revealed a population of 1,426,000.
		Elections were held for the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention but the proposed assembly failed when the UUUC rejected power sharing.
	www.nireland.com /genealogy/the_1900s.html (2186 words)

	History of the Republic of Ireland
		In the 1918 general election Sinn Féin won the vast majority of seats, many of which were uncontested.
		This was intended to allow largely nationalist areas of Northern Ireland to rejoin the Free State, and shortly after the establishment of the Free State this commission came into being.
		The British monarch continued to hold the title King of Ireland and was used as an "organ" in international and diplomatic relations, with the President of Ireland relegated to symbolic functions within the state but never of outside it.
	www.irishpast.com /History_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland.html (1984 words)

	Elections in Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Northern Ireland gives information on election and election results in Northern Ireland.
		Northern Ireland elects on national level a legislature.
		The Northern Ireland Assembly has 108 members, elected in 18 six-member constituencies with the single transferable vote method.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Northern_Ireland (99 words)

	Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism
		In the 1981 general election to the Dáil (Irish Parliament), three members of the Jewish community were elected.
		When Ireland held its first Holocaust Memorial Day on 26 January 2003 in Dublin City Hall, Justice Minister Michael McDowell apologized for a policy that was inspired by “a culture of muted antisemitism in Ireland,” which discouraged immigration by Europe’s shattered Jews.
		Ireland’s Jews are also known in Irish society for their portrayal in James Joyce's book Ulysses, in which the chief character is Leopold Bloom, the Jewish Irishman.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2003-4/ireland.htm (1848 words)

	The World at War - area Timeline from-to
		Republican prisoners in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison begin hunger strike to draw attention to the general state of affairs in Ireland and to the refusal of the British government of David Lloyd- George to recognize the IRA as a belligerent entitled to have its members treated as prisoners of war.
		Westminster parliament enacts the Government of Ireland Act repealing the 1914 Home Rule bill, partioning the island between the predominantly nationalist and Catholic 26 counties of southern Ireland and the predominantly unionist and Protestant 6 counties of northeastern Ireland and establishing separate parliaments for each.
		Northern Ireland enters the war by virtue of its status as an integral part of the United Kingdom.
	worldatwar.net /timeline/ireland/18-48.html (3284 words)

	Irish FAQ: History [5/10] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ireland (all or part of it, at various times) was a colony of the English (originally the Anglo-Normans) from the 12th century.
		Generally, though, the discrimination against Catholics (who were regarded as treacherous and potential allies of France and Spain) was worse than that against the nonconformists.
		Proportional representation was eliminated for local council elections in 1922 and for the Northern Ireland Parliament in Stormont in 1929.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/cultures/irish-faq/part05 (2985 words)

	1921
		Wage cuts in 1925 were resisted by the threat of joint union action and averted by a nine-month government subsidy.
		By 1925, 60% of British coal was being raised at a loss and unemployment in the industry rose to nearly 18 per cent.
		The class-determined character of the General Strike and coal dispute and the apparently callous nature of Government policy heightened Labour’s appeal as a specifically working-class party and after the1929 General Election it became the largest single party and formed its second government.
	faculty.goucher.edu /history231/Boughton_General_Strike.htm (2888 words)

	Britain and Ireland
		A third Labour victory at the next general election is no longer the certainty many once though it was.
		The suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly is the latest demonstration of the inability of capitalism to solve the national question in Ireland.
		The election of a Labour Government in Britain has raised enormous expectations, not least by workers in Northern Ireland who are looking for a way out of the impasse they have faced for nearly a century.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/britainireland.asp (1659 words)

	Workers unity: the real solution
		Larkin was dispatched to the United States to raise new funds for the impoverished Irish Transport and General Workers Unionandemdash;he was subsequently imprisoned and held in Sing Sing prison until 1922, in the purge of the American labour movement that followed the Russian Revolution.
		In the crucial 1918 general election De Valera demanded the Labour Partyandemdash;formed in 1912 through the intervention of Connollyandemdash;stand aside to allow Sinn Fein a free run, under the slogan: "Labour must wait".
		The new Northern Ireland state became a seething cauldron of sectarianism, riots and pogroms.
	www.marxist.com /history/labireland1.html (2732 words)

	BBC News \| History \| 1923-38: The fixing of the Irish border
		Education boycott The Northern Ireland minister of education, the Marquess of Londonderry, introduces an Act in June 1923 removing religion from compulsory education.
		The Irish premier, WT Cosgrave, agrees with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Craig to suppress the report.
		Three months later he is returned to power at a general election with an improved majority as Labour and Nationalist representation fell.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/64215.stm (591 words)

	Parliament of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was nominally prohibited by section 16 of the Schedule to the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922 from making any law which directly or indirectly discriminated against a religion, although this provision had little effect.
		The new nationalist party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, withdrew from Stormont in July 1971 over the refusal of an inquiry into Royal Ulster Constabulary actions in Derry.
		The influence of the Orange Order in the governance of Northern Ireland was far-reaching.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland (1631 words)

	Irish History Years 1920 - 1925 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		About one person in five in Ireland can speak Irish today, but only one in 20 use it daily.
		Ireland, together with Britain, joined the European Economic Community in 1973.
		The Irish Government is expected to call a General Election in Ireland for 2007.
	www.proud2beirish.com /Irish-History-1920-1925-AD.htm (325 words)

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