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Mace is a convenience shop symbol group operating as three separate entities with different ownerships in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The shops are independently owned and join the groups, paying a fee for marketing and branding support and purchasing their stock from the brand owners.
Ireland was no closer to home rule by the mid-19th century, and rebellions in 1848 and 1867 failed. [131] O'Connell's campaign was hampered by the limited scope of the franchise in Ireland. [132] The wider the franchise was expanded, the better anti-union parties were able to do in Ireland. [133]
The Acts of Union 1707 declared that the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland were "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". [p] [22] The term "United Kingdom" has occasionally been used as a description for the former Kingdom of Great Britain, although its official name from 1707 to 1800 was simply "Great Britain". [23]
The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 refers to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as "parts" of the United Kingdom in the following clause: "Each constituency shall be wholly in one of the four parts of the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)."
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – sovereign country in Europe, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK), or Britain. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain —a term also applied loosely to refer to the whole country—the north-eastern part ...
The Northern Ireland conflict: a beginner's guide (Simon and Schuster, 2012). Hammond, John L. Gladstone and the Irish nation (1938) online. McLoughlin, P. J. "British–Irish relations and the Northern Ireland peace process: the importance of intergovernmentalism." in Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland (Routledge, 2016) pp. 103–118.
The Greek embassy is located within Dublin's Georgian core on Pembroke Road, close to Fitzwilliam Square, one of Dublin's Georgian Garden squares.. The embassy is situated in a four-storey over basement terraced-townhouse, which was built c. 1825, and retains its original redbrick façade.
Greek–British relations are foreign relations between Greece and the United Kingdom.Greece and the United Kingdom maintain excellent and cordial relations [1] and consider each other an ally [2] with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, paying an official visit to London in 2021. [3]