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Півні́чна Ірла́ндія (ꠀꠋꠞꠦꠎ ꠝꠣꠔ ꠪ Northern Ireland, ірл. Tuaisceart Éireann, скотс Norlin Airlann) [1]— установча країна в Західній Європі, що входить до Сполученого королівства Великої Британії та Північної Ірландії. Межує з Республікою Ірландія в межах острова Ірландія. Столиця і найбільше місто — Белфаст. Адміністративно поділена (з 1975) на 6 графств (ꠀꠋꠞꠦꠎ ꠝꠣꠔ ꠪ counties).
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. As was intended by unionists and their supporters in Westminster, Northern Ireland had a unionist majority, who wanted to remain in the United Kingdom;[2] they were generally the Protestant descendants of colonists from Britain. Meanwhile, the majority in Southern Ireland (which became the Irish Free State in 1922), and a significant minority in Northern Ireland, were Irish nationalists (generally Catholics) who wanted a united independent Ireland.[3] [4]; Lua error in Module:Wp/syl/Citation/CS1 at line 4118: attempt to index field 'date_names' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Tuaisceart Éireann. Template:Wp/syl/Webarchive. DFA.ie. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ↑ David McKittrick & David McVea. Making Sense of the Troubles. New Amsterdam Books, 2002. p.5
- ↑ Richard Jenkin, 1997, Rethinking ethnicity: arguments and explorations, SAGE Publications: London: "In Northern Ireland the objectives of contemporary nationalists are the reunification of Ireland and the removal of British government."
- ↑ Peter Dorey, 1995, British politics since 1945, Blackwell Publishers: Oxford: "Just as some Nationalists have been prepared to use violence in order to secure Irish reunification, so some Unionists have been prepared to use violence in order to oppose it."