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The northern Ireland state was gerrymandered to give a unionist protestant majority over the nationalist catholic population of northern Ireland. If the whole of the province or nine countys of ulster had been partitioned into northern Ireland then it would have been 50 50 or in time unionists might even have been a minority.
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Is the whole of Ulster part of Northern Ireland?
Ulster has 9 counties. Only 6 of them are part of what is called Northern Ireland. In fact, the most northerly point of all of Ireland is in Ulster, but in one of the 3 counties that is not in Northern Ireland.
Was northern and southern Ireland ever whole?
Northern Ireland was only set up in 1922. Prior to that Ireland was, as you put it, whole.
How there is only 6 counties in Northern Ireland?
The counties called Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Down, Armagh and Derry make up Northern Ireland. When Northern Ireland was created by a treaty between Britain and Ireland, those 6 counties were made part of Northern Ireland. The remaining 26 counties of Ireland, are part of what is now commonly called the Republic of Ireland. The province of Ulster consists of all of Northern Ireland's counties, plus Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal. Donegal actually contains the most northern point on the whole island of Ireland. If you look at the map below, you will see all of Ireland's counties, with the 6 of Northern Ireland enclosed by a line, and you will also see how Donegal contains the most northern point.
How much of Ireland's population is in Northern Island?
The population of the whole island of Ireland is about 6.4 million people. The population of Northern Ireland as of July 2012 is 1,810,900 which is approximately 28% of the population of the whole island.
Where in Northern Ireland is nuclear energy used?
Neither the Republic of Ireland nor the island of Ireland as a whole has any nuclear power.
Why does England deserve Northern Ireland?
Northern Ireland is not technically ruled by England. However, it is part of the United Kingdom, of which England is the largest constituent part. At one time, the British conquered the whole of the island of Ireland. The last part of the country to resist their rule was the province of Ulster. In the 17th century, the Irish rulers of Ulster were finally dispossessed. Much of the land which was taken from them was given to settlers from Britain. At the time of the Irish War of Independence, the descendants of these settlers formed a majority of the population in 4 of the 9 counties in Ulster. They were called Unionists because they wanted to stay part of the UK where their ancestors had come from, and they threatened to rebel if they were forced to form part of an independent country. So the British offered to recognise the independence of 26 of the 32 counties in Ireland. The four counties where the Unionists were a majority, plus two ccounties where Nationalists who wanted independence were a majority, were to stay part of the UK. There was a civil war in Ireland between people who wanted to accept this treaty, and people who wanted to fight on and gain the independence of the whole country. The pro-treaty people won, so Ireland was partitioned into a 26-county independent country and 6 counties that were still in the UK. Today, four of the Six Counties have Nationalist majorities. However, Unionists have an overall majority of 58%. So these counties are still part of the UK.
Why did Northen Ireland remain part of United Kingdom?
Northern Ireland has never been part of Great Britain. Great Britain is the island with England, Wales and Scotland on it. Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland. They are two separate island that have never been part of each other. What you are referring to is the United Kingdom, which is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. A majority of people in the northern part of Ireland did not want to exit the United Kingdom in 1922. So there was a partition of the island creating what we now know as Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland stayed within the United Kingdom.
What is the Irish Question of the 19th century and who was most affected by it?
The Irish question relates to Britains problem of how to rule Ireland. It was expensive to police and it was believed that a level of Home rule would quiten things down. However Ulster Unionists were opposed to anything they felt would be a stepping stone towards an Irish republic. The obvious answer was partition of the country between north and south but Irish nationalists were vehemently opposed to this. In the end the country was partitioned but instead of the whole 8 counties of Northern Ireland 6 were separated. This was done to ensure a unionist monopoly of power over the northern state. The rest of the country gained dominion status and went on to form a republic.
How many provences does Ireland have?
4 provinces There are 32 counties in the whole island. 26 in the Republic of Ireland and 6 in Northern Ireland. There are only 4 provinces in Ireland: Ulster (shared between ROI and NI); Connaught, Leinster, and Munster (ROI). There are currently four provinces on the island of Ireland: Ulster, Lenister, Munster and Connaught. However, the term "province" is only an English approximation of the word "cuige" which, strictly specking, means "a fifth" but was also probably meant in older times as "a portion", i.e., a portion of the island. As the term implies, there was five fifths or provinces in Ireland in former times: Ulaid (more or less what is now Ulster), Midhe (now reduced to a county in Lenister, but which one took up much of the midlands east of the Shannon), Lagain (now Lenister, including Midhe), Mumhan (Munster) and Connacht (which, however, formerly counted Clare as a part of it; it now lies in Munster). Yet this was never an entirely fixed fact, as other areas, such as Ossary and Airgialla were from time to time counted as fifths.
What town in Northern Ireland hate the English?
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What is the abbreviation of the name given to England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland as a whole?
UK , for United Kingdom.
2 political and religious difference between northern Ireland and the republic of Ireland?
The republic of Ireland which is comprised of 3 of the 4 provinces (which are leinster in the east, munster in the south and connaught in the west) is mostly populated with people who follow the catholic church. The fourth province Ulster is currently occupied by the british and as such is mostly prodestant. A conflict exists where the Catholic replublican types want to reclaim Ulster as a province of the republic and restablish Ireland as a whole sovereign nation and the protestant british descendants want to stay united to the british.
