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Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom [1][2] (although it is also described by official sources as a province or a region [3][4]), situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It was created as a separate legal entity on 3 May 1921, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. [5]
Northern Ireland was created in 1921, when Ireland was partitioned by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating a devolved government for the six northeastern counties.
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, lying in the northeastern quadrant of the island of Ireland. Its capital is Belfast. It is sometimes referred to as Ulster, although it includes only six of the nine counties which made up that historic Irish province.
Out of the 19th- and early 20th-century ferment that produced a sovereign state of Ireland to its south, Northern Ireland emerged in 1920–22 as a constituent part of the United Kingdom with its own devolved parliament.
This explosive era was fraught with car bombings, riots and revenge killings that ran from the late 1960s through the late 1990s. The Troubles were seeded by centuries of conflict between...
Rooted in a legacy of colonialism, religious conflict, and political uncertainty, the Troubles would take 30 years, and thousands of lives, to peter out. Police officers from the Royal Ulster...
the Troubles, violent sectarian conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the overwhelmingly Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland.
Below we look at the years between 1916 and 1922 and the key moments that led to partition and the establishment of Northern Ireland.
Patriotism and plots: AD 1914. The immediate effect of Britain's entry into World War I, on 4 August 1914, is two-edged. On the surface it defuses the recent tensions over independence. But there is a minority in Ireland which refuses to postpone the struggle.
Marking 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland is an anniversary which is seen in very different ways by different sections of the community. We find out why.