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	Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Northern Ireland is bounded on the north and northeast by the North Channel, on the southeast by the Irish Sea, and on the south and west by Ireland.
		Northern Ireland is also known as Ulster, because it comprises six of the nine counties that constituted the former province of Ulster.
		The population of Northern Ireland (1996 estimate) was 1,663,000.
	www.telleurope.org /northern_ireland.htm (397 words)

	Privatization in Northern Ireland - Making Politics Normal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Northern Ireland economy has failed to bring the same prosperity that has been enjoyed in the rest of Britain; unemployment has remained at 17 percent, while it has fallen in the rest of the country to 9 percent.
		Politically, it isn't good for Northern Ireland to be so dependent upon the British government as an outside benefactor.
		Northern Ireland has been excluded from the radical reforms of secondary education being implemented in the rest of Britain.
	www.libertyhaven.com /countriesandregions/ireland/privatization.html (1140 words)

	Northern Ireland - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Seamus Mallon was criticised by unionist politicians for calling the region the "North of Ireland" while Sinn Féin has been criticised in some newspapers in the Republic for still referring to the "Six Counties." Sunday Independent article on Mallon and the use of "Six Counties".
		Unionists were in a minority on the island of Ireland as a whole, but were a majority in the northern province of Ulster, and a very large majority in the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down and Londonderry, with substantial numbers also concentrated in the nationalist-majority counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone.
		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.netipedia.com /index.php/Northern_Ireland (4724 words)

	Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While elections in Northern Ireland are often characterised as mini-referenda on the constitutional question, this is too simplistic an analysis.
		However, as the Northern Ireland party system is not based on socio-economic divisions, it inevitably attracts a wider spectrum of opinion and has a middle-class support base.
		The feminist Northern Ireland Women's Coalition briefly held seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly, but have now lost both those and their only local Councillor and seem to be in jeopardy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Northern_Ireland (2335 words)

	CNN Specials - Northern Ireland
		The Government of Ireland Act of 1920 recognised this de facto religious division by splitting the country into two separate political units, a predominantly Catholic south and a predominantly Protestant north.
		It is this political division, compounding centuries of religious animosity, that lies at the heart of the Northern Ireland conflict.
		While political harmony was never a likely or achievable pre-requisite of a long-lasting peace in Northern Ireland, arms decommissioning by the paramilitaries has always been considered essential.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/n.ireland/overview.html (1060 words)

	Global Exchange : Ireland Politics
		The term in Northern Ireland context is used by many to imply that the person gives tacit or actual support the use of force by paramilitary groups to 'defend the union' with Britain.
		Republican - In a Northern Ireland context the term Republican is taken to imply that the person gives tacit or actual support to the use of physical force by paramilitary groups with Nationalist aims.
		Members of the Assembly are voted in by Proportional Representation and Ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive are appointed according to party strengths in the Assembly.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/europe/ireland/politics.html (1885 words)

	Northern Ireland
		The solution to Northern Ireland and the Balkans and every conflict in the world is the same: Every country in the world should be an ultra-neutral, secular, ultra-liberal democracy.
		It is important to realise that Catholics in Northern Ireland have never had a share in the governance of their own country.
		Ireland going back to the UK is not an option, but it is certainly time for it to join NATO and become a formal political and military ally of the UK.
	markhumphrys.com /ni.html (3286 words)

	Irish Politics
		Anyway, by far the most important thing that has happened recently is the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly by Peter Mandelson, the British Cabinet member in charge of the north.
		As in the Republic, politics in Northern Ireland are not organized along a left-right scale.
		Intense negotiations last week involving the Irish and British governments and the main parties in Northern Ireland were halted after failing to break through the current impasse in the peace process.
	www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/irish_politics (498 words)

	Brief Guide To Politics In Northern Ireland
		Thus they invented the province of Northern Ireland, drawing it to include as much territory as possible and still have what was felt to be a permanent unionist majority.
		Michael Collins, negotiating on behalf of the IRA, agreed to this division in exchange for a measure of self-rule for the rest of Ireland, feeling that Northern Ireland was not a viable entity and that this treaty would merely be a stepping stone to a united and fully independent nation.
		The nature of this new province of Northern Ireland was made clear by one of its first Prime Ministers, who called it "a Protestant state for a Protestant people." Catholics were legally discriminated against in housing, jobs, benefits, voting, and were in every respect considered second-class citizens.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/irish_politics/21922 (478 words)

	Privatization in Northern Ireland -- Making Politics Normal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For most of us, party politics may be a dubious blessing, but for Northern Ireland it seems to be just what they need.
		While in the rest of Britain self-employment has grown impressively, Northern Ireland has a much lower start-up rate for new businesses.
		Northern Ireland would benefit from business becoming more important, because this would diminish the importance of politics.
	www.self-gov.org /freeman/8909elli.html (675 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Painting politics in Northern Ireland
		As the man charged with implementing reform of Northern Ireland's police arrived in Belfast, a mural was set to go up on the nationalist Falls Road making clear what one section of the community wanted.
		Since the first IRA ceasefire of 1994, Northern Ireland has seen a massive growth in the number of murals.
		Drawing on much of the left-wing political iconography of the 1970s, he and others began producing graphical illustrations for the Republican News newspaper before graduating to full-scale murals.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/771314.stm (1153 words)

	Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The historic province of Ulster covers a greater landmass than Northern Ireland: six of its counties are in Northern Ireland, three in the Republic of Ireland.
		According to a Submission by Marie Smyth to the Northern Ireland Commission on Victims 40,000 people have also been injured though she believes that to be a conservative figure.
		The term constituent country is sometimes applied to Northern Ireland by Unionists and British sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Ireland (6265 words)

	Special report: Northern Ireland \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		August 10: Dissident republicans were blamed for a spate of incendiary attacks and bomb alerts in the Northern Ireland town of Newry, close to the border, that destroyed at least four large retail stores.
		October 12: Sinn Féin was today accused by a rival nationalist party of 'over-exaggeration' over the issue of policing in Northern Ireland, one of the key stumbling blocks to the resumption of power sharing in the province.
		October 4: A 'final settlement' to the political stalemate in Northern Ireland is within reach, Tony Blair declared today after an independent commission concluded that the IRA was no longer a terrorist threat.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /northernirelandassembly/0,,441059,00.html (2021 words)

	PROGRESSING POLITICS in NORTHERN IRELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Our political process is faced with its most acute crisis since the GFA was endorsed by an overwhelming vote in its favour in May 1998.
		Meantime politics must be allowed to move forward at the fastest pace possible.
		A far better course is to continue exposing IRA criminality and to insist to Sinn Fein and the IRA that they have to live by the same laws as the rest of us.
	www.sdlp.ie /prfarrenprogressingpolitics.shtm (1103 words)

	Nidex - Northern Ireland Politics
		Well, you get all shades of political opinion on both sides of the community and everyone thinks they are right.
		Here are links to the political parties and other political sites and you can decide what you believe.
		Whether you're interested in Northern Ireland sport, tourism, industry or just want to find out more about our great country, then hopefully you'll find the links you need there.
	www.nidex.com /politics.htm (214 words)

	PoliticsOnline - News, Tools & Strategies
		The politics of Northern Ireland have always been something of an enigma to many people - the UDC, IRA, UVF, SDLP - so many initials.
		Stratagem-ni.com has everything you need to get around the politics of Northern Ireland, and maneuvers you through the maze that has boggled so many of us for so long.
		Stratagem-ni.com is the first site of its kind to cover all facets of Northern Ireland politics from government links to assembly members, political profiles - they have it all here for you to view or download.
	www.politicsonline.com /content/main/hotsite/hotsite_display.asp?id=164 (312 words)

	Politics & Parliament: NORTHERN IRELAND: PM gives obsolete prisons to Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Maze prison is among premises being handed over free of charge from London to the Northern Ireland devolved government as part of new financial arrangements.
		The Chancellor said he was announcing an economic settlement to back up political agreement, saying the package represented a long- term strategic way forward for Northern Ireland's public services.
		Tony Blair added: "We are handing over to the Northern Ireland Executive installations that belong to the bad old days.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020503/ai_n12616567 (361 words)

	CAIN: Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics, & Society. Information on 'the troubles'
		Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland (1968 to the Present)
		There is also information on Northern Ireland society.
		New material is added regularly and there are also frequent updates, so information on particular pages may change.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk (64 words)

	Slugger O'Toole (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		They reiterated their belief that all parties should be able to endorse the St. Andrews Agreement and to implement it in good faith, building the trust and confidence necessary for a stable and lasting settlement.
		The bad news is: Newcastle in County Down was issued with a warning, and its water quality was judged to be poor as a result of the discharge of raw sewage.
		Another trend is deindustrialization - the end of the British working class as a unified political and economic force - which affected Belfast like the North of England etc. Its arguable that protestant NI is now obliged to catch up with the fleixibilized, neo-liberal south which jumped from peasant to post-fordist in a generation.
	www.sluggerotoole.com.cob-web.org:8888 (9766 words)

	Amazon.com: The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity: Books: Camille C. O'Reilly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This book investigates the role of the Irish language movement in the social construction of competing versions of Irish political and cultural identity in Northern Ireland, arguing that for some Nationalists, the Irish language has become an alternative point of political access and expression.
		She has been trying to answer the difficult and important question, if and to what extent the Irish language in Northern Ireland can be called "terrorist lingo", as lots of its opponent see it.
		Her book is interesting to everybody who wants to get acquainted with the peculiar sociolinguistic experiment of reviving a minority language in vernacular use outside its demesne.
	www.amazon.com /Irish-Language-Northern-Ireland-Politics/dp/0312217900 (798 words)

	Northern Ireland Yearbook 2006 \| A guide to Northern Ireland Politics, The Northern Ireland Economy and the Social Life ...
		Northern Ireland Yearbook - the most comprehensive guide to the political, economic and social life of Northern Ireland ever produced in one single volume.
		It is a book which has proved itself to be of immense use to business people, public servants and just about anyone needing information on Northern Ireland.
		A-Z of all Northern Ireland government departments and agencies;
	www.northernirelandyearbook.com (468 words)

	Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics
		This page lists most of the major works on women in politics in Northern Ireland.
		As there has been less published on women in Northern Ireland politics than the rest of Ireland and the UK the books and articles have not been categorised like the bibliographical sections of the Observatory dealing with Britain and Ireland.
		'The Northern Ireland Assembly: assessing the gender deficit', Democratic Dialogue.
	www.qub.ac.uk /cawp/UKhtmls/NI_biblio.htm (487 words)

	Do Politics : Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Disengaged by not apathetic; young people in Northern Ireland tell us their concerns
		Last year the Electoral Commission teamed up with the Institute of Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland to find out what young people thought about getting more involved in voting and politics.
		The young people involved in the project felt that politics in Northern Ireland was too focused on religion and political division, and that other important issues that affected their lives such as university fees and transport got left off the agenda.
	www.dopolitics.co.uk /Regions/nireland.cfm (147 words)

	nipolitics.com -> Northern Ireland Politics - the politics of war and peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		nipolitics.com -> Northern Ireland Politics - the politics of war and peace
		Northern Ireland Politics: The politics of war and peace - Paul Dixon.
		This web site provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to the academic literature, journalism and web sources on the politics of Northern Ireland.
	www.nipolitics.com (74 words)

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