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The Giant's Causeway ( Irish: Clochán an Aifir) [ 1] is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. [ 3][ 4] It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills . It was declared a World Heritage Site by ...
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police) 5 July 1940. Killed in a fall from his bicycle while reporting for duty in the blackout. Cecil Robert Budden. PC. 27. Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police) 19 May 1957. Fatally injured in a collision with a car while on motorcycle patrol.
The Loughgall ambush took place on 8 May 1987 in the village of Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. An eight-man unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in the village. An IRA member drove a digger with a bomb in its bucket through the perimeter fence, while the ...
Currys. Currys (branded as Currys PC World between 2010 and 2021) is a British electrical retailer and aftercare service provider operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, specialising in white goods, consumer electronics, computers and mobile phones. Established as a bicycle retailer in 1927, Currys expanded the range of goods sold and from ...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Chameleon (2005 video game) Clan O'Conall and the Crown of the Stag. Clive Barker's Undying. Cricket 2000. Curse of the Sea Rats.
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]
Although Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom, it has a quite distinct party system from the rest of the country, as the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats do not contest elections there (though the Liberal Democrats have links with the Alliance Party ), and the Conservative Party has received only limited support in recent elections.
The economy of Northern Ireland is the smallest of the four constituents of the United Kingdom and the smaller of the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland. At the time of the Partition of Ireland in 1922, and for a period afterwards, Northern Ireland had a predominantly industrial economy, most notably in shipbuilding, rope manufacture ...