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10K Valencia Ibercaja: Valencia, Spain [13] 15 km (road) 42:47 John Treacy: 26 June 1988 Cascade Run Off 15-km Road Race Portland, United States One hour: 19625 m John Treacy: 19 September 1987 Monaco One Hour Fontvieille Monaco 20 km (road) 57:42+ Martin Fagan: 14 March 2009 The Hague Half Marathon The Hague, Netherlands Half marathon: 1:00:49 ...
Ulster (coloured), showing Northern Ireland in pink and the Republic of Ireland part in green. Ulster has a population of just over two million people and an area of ...
The assessment sought to establish "the structure, role and purpose of paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland." [1] The report was delivered to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on 19 October 2015 and published the next day. It concluded that: "all the main paramilitary groups operating during the Troubles are still in ...
The dialect spoken in Northern Ireland, Ulster Irish, has two main types, East Ulster Irish and Donegal Irish (or West Ulster Irish), [187] is the one closest to Scottish Gaelic (which developed into a separate language from Irish Gaelic in the 17th century).
Sport NI's headquarters - known as the House of Sport. The Sports Institute for Northern Ireland (SINI), with facilities at Ulster University's Jordanstown campus (UUJ), was established as a partnership between Sport NI and Ulster University. [11] It was formed in 2002 to create a "high performance sporting system" in Northern Ireland.
This is an alphabetical list of towns and villages in Northern Ireland. For a list sorted by population, see the list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population . The towns of Armagh , Lisburn and Newry are also classed as cities (see city status in the United Kingdom ).
The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. [6] This process lasted from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flight of the Earls allowed the shiring of Ulster from ...
From the late 19th century, the majority of people living in Ireland wanted the British government to grant some form of self-rule to Ireland. The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) sometimes held the balance of power in the House of Commons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a position from which it sought to gain Home Rule, which would have given Ireland autonomy in internal affairs ...