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Segregation in Northern Ireland is a long-running issue in the political and social history of Northern Ireland. The segregation involves Northern Ireland's two main voting blocs— Irish nationalist / republicans (mainly Roman Catholic ) and unionist / loyalist (mainly Protestant ).
Interface area is the name given in Northern Ireland to areas where segregated nationalist and unionist residential areas meet. They have been defined as "the intersection of segregated and polarised working class residential zones, in areas with a strong link between territory and ethno-political identity".
Belfast City [c] Belfast: County Antrim County Down: 291,386 126,925 78.57 3,708.53 'Band A - Belfast' Derry Urban Area [d] Derry and Strabane: County Londonderry: 94,376: 2: Derry City: Derry and Strabane: County Londonderry: 84,884 35,554 33.95 2,500.49 'Band B - Derry City' 3: Craigavon Urban Area including Aghacommon [e] Armagh, Banbridge ...
In Northern Ireland respondents were given a list of options (including British, Irish, and Northern Irish) from which they could choose as many as they wanted. Irish national identity was numerically in a majority in two districts, Derry and Newry , where 55.03% and 52.09% respectively consider themselves as having an Irish national identity ...
The UK census of 2011 recorded 3,616 Black people in Northern Ireland (0.2% of the total population). [citation needed] The next census will be in 2021. As well as help from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the EU-funded Afro-Community Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI) was formed in 2003 to represent the views of black ...
Many others in Northern Ireland view people from the Republic of Ireland as being members of their common nation encompassing the island of Ireland and regard the English, Scots and Welsh as foreigners. Co-existing with this dichotomy is a Northern Irish identity, which can be held alone or, as is also the case with Englishness, Scottishness ...
A map showing the current Irish border. The repartition of Ireland has been suggested as a possible solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.In 1922 Ireland was partitioned on county lines, and left Northern Ireland with a mixture of both unionists, who wish to remain in the United Kingdom, and nationalists, who wish to join a United Ireland.
Map of the Rural and Urban Districts of Northern Ireland in 1967. The urban and rural districts of Northern Ireland were created in 1899 when the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 came into effect. They were based on the system of district councils introduced in England and Wales four years earlier.