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  Districts of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current pattern of local government in Northern Ireland, with 26 councils, was established in 1973 to replace the previous system established by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
The system is based on the recommendations of the Macrory Report, of June 1970, which presupposed the continued existence of the Government of Northern Ireland to act as a regional-level authority.
For local government purposes, Northern Ireland was previously divided into six counties and two county boroughs, with various rural districts and urban districts in the counties.
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 Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Northern Ireland is a region of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland situated on the island of Ireland.
Northern Ireland was created in 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, enacted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland parliament.
Northern Ireland is often called "Ulster" or "the Province" by unionists or "the North of Ireland" or "the Six Counties" by nationalists.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: United_Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland forms the United Kingdom's principal international land border, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the Channel Tunnel.
Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom whilst the Irish Free State became an independent country.
As provided for in the treaty, Northern Ireland, which consists of six of the nine counties of the Irish province of Ulster, immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK.
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 wiki/Subdivisions of Northern Ireland Definition / wiki/Subdivisions of Northern Ireland Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
For local government purposes, Northern Ireland was previously divided into six countiesThe island of Ireland is often referred to as the 32 counties, with its two states, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, being nicknamed respectively the six counties and the twenty-six counties.
The counties are subdivisions of the ancient Provinces of Ireland.
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 Subdivisions of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The United Kingdom is divided into four entities — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
As a whole, executive government in Northern Ireland is currently administered by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and laws are made in the United Kingdom Parliament - known as "direct rule" in contrast to devolution.
The Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland Executive established under the Good Friday Agreement are currently suspended.
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 United Kingdom
The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly self-governing nations of England, Scotland and Wales together with the province of Northern Ireland, a region on the island of Ireland (the rest of Ireland left the United Kingdom in 1922).
In 1922, 26 of the counties of Ireland were formed into the Irish Free State (the other six Ulster counties remaining part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland) and the state became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the name being officially changed in 1927.
Northern Ireland was also granted a self-governing Northern Ireland Assembly as part of the Good Friday Agreement, but it is currently suspended.
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 subdivisions of the united kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The United Kingdom is divided into four countries, which form part of the British Isles, and are in turn subdivided into several different types of subdivisions.
The first level of administrative subdivision in England is the region, which have a limited existence.
At the next level are 118 administrative counties, of which 84 are Unitary Authorities (meaning they have no administrative subdivisions), the remainder being subdivided further into Districts.
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 Local Councils in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is divided into 26 Local Council areas.
The current pattern of local government in Northern Ireland, with 26 Local Councils, was established in 1973 to replace the previous system established by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
The Local Council structure and the structure of other areas of public services in Northern Ireland is being reviewed by the Review of Public Administration and is likely to result in a significant reduction in the eventual number of Local Councils.
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 phpBB.K405L02D.de :: Wikipedia English Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It is comprised of four constituent parts: three constituent countries - England, Scotland and Wales - on the island of Great Britain, and the province of Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.
The country is surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
Such inaccurate uses may cause offence, especially among unionists in Northern Ireland and residents of other parts of the UK.
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 Wikinfo | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
With the formation of 32 Irish counties into the Irish Free State, with six northern Irish counties remaining part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland, in 1922, the country was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927.
The House of Lords has been subjected to ongoing reforms and National assemblies with varying degrees of power were created in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1999.
Northern Ireland, making up the northeastern part of Ireland, is mostly hilly.
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 United Kingdom (08/05)
Subdivisions: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland (municipalities, counties, and parliamentary constituencies).
Ireland's invasion by the Anglo-Normans in 1170 led to centuries of strife.
In October 2002, Northern Ireland's devolved institutions were suspended amid allegations of IRA intelligence gathering at Stormont, the seat of Northern Ireland's government.
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 Dissertation Outline by TJ Lynch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Indeed, the classifications of the Northern Ireland conflict are as varied as the American institu-tions seeking a role in its resolution.
Northern Ireland has no oil; its conflict spreads only as far as the British mainland; Americans are not being killed; civilian casu-alties are small compared to Bosnia, Somalia, or Kosovo; the Northern Ireland economy is not on the verge of collapse.
Northern Ireland induced much posturing from the Clinton administration, little of which was grounded in narrowly-defined national interest; as an issue area it is difficult to see in Northern Ireland where the strategic interests of the United States are really affected by the outcome of the U.S. policy toward it.
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 SUBDIVISIONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In the first instance the United Kingdom is a political union between the formerly separate kingdoms of England and Scotland, the principality of Wales and the province of Northern_Ireland, each of which has a unique political status.
England is divided into nine regions and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are each a single region.
As a whole, executive government in Northern Ireland is currently administered by the Secretary_of_State_for_Northern_Ireland and laws are made in the United_Kingdom_Parliament - known as "direct rule" in contrast to devolution.
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 UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a country located in western Europe.
It is comprised of three constituent countries–England, Scotland, and Wales–on the island of Great Britain, and the province of Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.
It may cause offence, especially to unionists in Northern Ireland to use this incorrect term to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole.
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The 1801 Act of Union, the Kingdom of Great Britain merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1169 and 1603, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
With the formation of 26 Irish counties into the Irish Free State in 1922, the six remaining Ulster counties remaining part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland, the country was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927.
In form, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with government, though carried out in the monarch's name, answerable to parliament and through it the electorate.
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 Geographical Index Help
A territorial unit equivalent to the English shire, it was created by the English administration in Ireland as the major subdivision of an Irish province and dates from the 13th to the 17th century.
Present day Northern Ireland comprises six of the nine counties established in the Province of Ulster - the Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan lie in the Republic of Ireland.
The 'ballybetagh' disappeared after the Plantation and the subdivisions became the modern townlands, the average size of which, in most of Northern Ireland, is now c.350 acres but c.180 acres in Fermanagh.
www.proni.gov.uk /geogindx/geoghelp.htm   (817 words)

  
 United Kingdom: Submission by Amnesty International to the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland
It is not known whether the Northern Ireland Director of Public Prosecutions recommended that prosecutions should be brought; it is not known whether the Attorney-General decided that prosecutions should not be brought, or indeed whether the Cabinet was involved in making this decision.
As we have stated, Amnesty International believes that the establishment of a policing force in Northern Ireland which has the confidence of all sections of the community must, necessarily, begin with a consultation process that is fair, transparent and accessible.
Statistics provided by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency for the combined three-year period from 1995-98 indicate that the demographic breakdown for Northern Ireland, by religious status, is 42 percent Catholic and 54 percent Protestant.
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 Subdivisions of the United Kingdom. Who is Subdivisions of the United Kingdom? What is Subdivisions of the United ...
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Northern Ireland is divided into 22 Districts, 4 Cities, and 6 Counties.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 Human Biology: Religious differentials in postfamine marriage patterns, Northern Ireland, 1840-1915. I. Demographic and ...
Immediately before the famine the population of Ireland was 8.53 million, and many of the people relied almost exclusively on the potato as their staple foodstuff.
Mortality and morbidity were greatest in the west and southwest of Ireland (Cousens 1960), with typhus, relapsing fever, dysentery, and tuberculosis diagnosed as the main causes of death and nutritional deficiency disorders, including scurvy, xerophthalmia, and pellagra, prevalent among survivors (Crawford 1981, 1984).
These historical subdivisions are exemplified by the population of the Ards Peninsula in County Down (Smith et al.
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 Subdivisions of the United Kingdom: Dictionary definition
The United Kingdom is divided into four countries, which are in turn subdivided into several different types of subdivisions.
Northern Ireland is divided into 24 Districts, 2 Cities, and 6 Counties.
Definition / meaning of Subdivisions of the United Kingdom:
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 List of subnational entities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of current subnational entities by country:
See also: ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes based on ISO 3166-1 country codes.
Subdivisions of Belarus, province (oblast), city ISO 3166-2:BY
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 CAIN: CSC: Report: In the Frame - Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: the implications of expansion (1999)
To link integrated education with the direct rule administration, any of the Northern Ireland political parties or any of the churches was regarded by those directly involved as problematic since it could lead to the movement being labelled and losing credibility with other sections of the community.
The Northern Ireland school system is small and before the advent of the integrated schools it was clearly structured and the development pattern well established.
Teaching unions in Northern Ireland as elsewhere are primarily concerned to work in support of members especially in relation to conditions of employment.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /csc/reports/fraser99b.htm   (16498 words)

  
 United Kingdom - InformationBlast
The UK is situated just off the north-western coast of mainland Europe, surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean.
In form, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with legislative power invested in an elected government, and executive power invested in a Cabinet lead by the Prime Minister whose power, though carried out in the monarch's name, is answerable to Parliament and through it the electorate.
In recent years however, each of the constituent nations, apart from England, has been granted its own government, responsible in varying degree for some internal matters.
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 EMU - Cross-Cultural: Ireland and Northern Ireland - Journal
From 1936 until 1969, the city was gerrymandered into three voting wards in such a way that the Protestants would always end up with a majority of council seats, holding two of the three wards even though the Catholic third ward is much larger than either of them.
Solicitors are collecting hundreds of personal depositions which will be used in the spring when the judiciary case is reopened: many residents were never satisfied with the British government's earlier investigation, and the impending case is about the allegedly massive cover-up from that era.
It is part of the Republic (i.e., not Northern Ireland), and about 35% of the people speak Irish as their first language.
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 Bibliographic Standards:UKMARC Manual
The first character indicates the continent, the second an area larger than a country, the third and fourth a country, the fifth an area larger than the main political subdivision and the sixth and seventh a political subdivision.
Local area code or code taken from BS 6879/ISO 3166-2: 1998 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions.
Part 2: Country subdivision code) is intended to provide regional codes for all countries the system outlined above can be used more widely than the UK.
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 Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for Europe & ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Europe and Russia - Europe - Ireland - Northern Ireland - Antrim and Derry - Lisburn
LISBURN, eight miles southwest of Belfast, is the administrative centre of Northern Ireland's second-largest local authority and its busy, pedestrianized shopping streets and packed car parks indicate recent commercial success, perhaps unknown since its days as an important linen town.
After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which removed French and Dutch Huguenots' freedom of worship, large numbers of them were persuaded to come to Ulster, where they founded the local linen trade.
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 Visit Northern Ireland - Accommodation, attractions, events and shopping
Why not take time to browse through the various sections of the web site and you will find loads of information to make your visit to Northern Ireland one to remember.
If you need accommodation either locally or elsewhere in Ireland, we have hundreds of quality places that you will be spoilt for choice.
The Attractions and Things to See and Do sections you will find enough things to keep you busy that you will have to plan another visit.
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 United Kingdom (04/04)
However, the two Sinn Fein Members of Parliament (MPs), who won seats in the last election, have refused to claim their seats.
Assembly elections scheduled for May 2003 were postponed.
The British Government is working closely with the Irish Government and Northern Ireland political parties to create the conditions that would allow elections and the restoration of devolved government to take place.
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 Encyclopedia: List of places in Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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