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- The decision to split Ireland in two followed decades of turmoil between nationalists, who wanted independence from British rule, and unionists, who wanted to remain in the United Kingdom. The border divided the 32-county island into two separate jurisdictions - six counties in the north-east became Northern Ireland, which is still part of the UK.
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May 2, 2021 · The border divided the 32-county island into two separate jurisdictions - six counties in the north-east became Northern Ireland, which is still part of the UK. The other 26-county territory...
Dec 21, 2020 · In the decades before 1921, the key phrase when it came to Ireland was not independence or partition - it was home rule, in which Ireland would get more say in how it was governed, via a...
At that time the territory of Southern Ireland left the UK and became the Irish Free State, now known as the Republic of Ireland . The territory that became Northern Ireland, within the Irish province of Ulster, had a Protestant and Unionist majority who wanted to maintain ties with Britain.
Dec 23, 2020 · Exactly 100 years ago today - 23 December 1920 - the Government of Ireland Act became law. It partitioned Ireland into two separate jurisdictions - Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland....
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Dec 6, 2021 · Exactly 100 years ago, after months of negotiations, the British and Irish delegates gathered in the cabinet room of 10 Downing Street in the early hours of the morning and signed the...
May 2, 2021 · Northern Ireland remained part of the UK, which is why today there are two separate countries on one island. But the partition of the island continued to be a source of division. The...
Dec 6, 2021 · If it had not presented an address, Northern Ireland would have continued to exist but as part of the Irish Free State rather than part of the United Kingdom.
