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| | Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ireland was partitioned in 1921 under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 between six of the nine Ulster counties in the northeast (forming Northern Ireland) and the remaining twenty-six counties of the south and west (forming the Irish Free State in 1922). | | | Unionists were in a minority on the island of Ireland as a whole, but were in the majority in the four counties of Armagh, Antrim, Down, and Londonderry, thereby forming a narrow majority in the northern province of Ulster. | | | The all-island Kingdom of Ireland (1541-1801) was incorporated into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 under the terms of the Act of Union, under which the kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain merged under a central parliament, government and monarchy based in London. |
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| | Ireland (10/04) |
| | The UUP and SDLP are centrist unionist and republican parties, respectively, while Sinn Fein is strongly republican and the DUP is strongly unionist. | | | Ireland is a sovereign, independent, democratic state with a parliamentary system of government. | | | The agreement was approved in a referendum by 71% of Northern Ireland voters and 95% of Irish voters. |
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| | Articles - Unionists (Ireland) |
| | Unionists were in the majority in four counties (Antrim, Derry, Down and Armagh) but insisted on control over the counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone as well. | | | One of the strangest events in Northern Ireland is that the anti-Catholic right-wing Protestant leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Rev. Ian Paisley, attracts some Catholic votes in his constituency in elections to the British and European Parliaments (he serves in both). | | | In the context of Irish politics, Unionists are people in Northern Ireland, who wish to see the continuation of the 1801 Act of Union, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which Northern Ireland, created in that latter Act, remains part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / N. Ireland Ulster Unionists survive vote |
| | The leader of Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionists received a vote of confidence from his party Saturday, keeping his job in an internal ballot five months after the party's worst-ever electoral performance. | | | BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The leader of Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionists received a vote of confidence from his party Saturday, keeping his job in an internal ballot five months after the party's worst-ever electoral performance. | | | Elections last November to Northern Ireland's legislature rewarded hard-liners at the expense of the moderate forces who had led the previous coalition. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2004/03/27/n_ireland_ulster_unionists_survive_vote
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| | The Associated Press |
| | Their talks with Blair were the first since disarmament officials on Sept. 26 confirmed that the Irish Republican Army had surrendered its weapons stockpiles, a long-elusive goal of Northern Ireland's 12-year-old peace process. | | | LONDON (AP) -- The Democratic Unionists, Northern Ireland's dominant Protestant party, presented a long list of demands Thursday to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, saying they amounted to their price for opening negotiations on power-sharing with Sinn Fein. | | | But Britain's minister responsible for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, said much would depend on whether an expert panel called the Independent Monitoring Commission reports that the IRA has ceased all activities, particularly those criminal in nature. |
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http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NORTHERN_IRELAND?SITE=MIDTF&SECTION=HOME
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| | But this is to underestimate its appeal to the British and Irish states as well as to Sinn Mn. | | | The Ulster Unionist Party and its leader, Trimble, are flailing around looking for a response to the new Republicanism. | | | This is something that is irritating and vexing Mo Mowlan, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to a considerable degree. |
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http://vassun.vassar.edu/~tilongma/stewart.html
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| | CNN.com - Unionists quit N.Ireland assembly - October 18, 2001 |
| | There was increased support then for Sinn Fein, the republican political party, and the Democratic Unionists, who are opposed to the peace agreement forged in Northern Ireland in 1998. | | | The Northern Ireland minister, John Reid, must now decide whether to order a short suspension of the assembly or to dissolve it, returning to direct rule from London, and call new elections. | | | Earlier Thursday, the party's three ministers in the unity government have handed in resignation letters to take effect at midnight, party leader David Trimble said. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/10/18/nireland.unionistsa
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| | Unionists |
| | But the Catholic unionists' votes (perhaps 50,000 votes in all) are there for the taking, if only the DUP and UUP wanted them. | | | The cause must surely be because the DUP and UUP make no effort to woo the Catholic unionist vote. | | | At the end of his life, he has seen the prize of becoming Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. |
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http://markhumphrys.com/ni.unionists.html
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| | Talks on Northern Ireland floundering / Unionists clash with Sinn Fein over local rule |
| | But Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern said Saturday that progress had been made, and they suggested that the framework for a breakthrough that would allow Protestant unionists and Catholic republicans to re-establish local rule based on power sharing was on the table. | | | Participants in the talks said that frustration was building, in part because Blair and Ahern believe they have positioned the outlawed Irish Republican Army to disarm fully and declare an end to its guerrilla war to return the six counties of Northern Ireland to Irish rule. | | | Leeds Castle, England -- Three days of negotiations among the leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties failed to bridge important differences over how to share power and end paramilitary violence, despite pressure from the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland. |
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| | Ulster Is Given an Ultimatum to End Impasse |
| | Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern issued their formal program after having personally devoted five grueling days to talks that failed to produce an agreement, between the Ulster Unionists, the Protestant group that is the province's largest party, and the Roman Catholic group Sinn Fein, the political representative of the Irish Republican Army. | | | ELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The British and Irish Governments delivered an ultimatum Friday night to the feuding politicians of Ulster to resolve the impasse that threatens the Northern Ireland peace settlement or see their hard-fought new legislature shut down. | | | That delay became particularly dramatic this week, when new legislatures in Wales and Scotland received their powers from London in the program of constitutional reform that Blair has brought to Britain. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/070399nireland-talks.html
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| | From 1915 to 1916 he served as the British Attorney General, and was appointed as the 'First Lord of the Admiralty' in 1916 (until 1917) and was a member of Lloyd George's War Cabinet from 1917 to 1918. | | | 'Lord' Carson (1854-1935) was born in Dublin and became a successful barrister ; at 38 years young he was elected as a Unionist MP (to Westminster) for Dublin University and, again at that age, he was appointed (British) 'Solicitor General for Ireland' and served as the 'Solicitor General for England' from 1900 to 1905. | | | At 57 years of age (in 1911) he was elected leader of the 'Ulster Unionist Council' (UUC) and helped to establish the 'Ulster Volunteer Force' (UVF), a pro-British militia. |
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http://1169andcounting.blogspot.com/2004_11_21_1169andcounting_archive.html
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| | BBC News Northern Ireland Ulster Unionists delay review decision |
| | Mr Blair is seeking assurances from the parties that they are committed to the review, due to begin on Monday under the chairmanship of former US Senator George Mitchell. | | | UK Prime Minster Tony Blair has said he supports Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam's position on the IRA ceasefire. | | | Blair urged to act over expulsions (30 Aug 99 Northern Ireland) |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_434000/434805.stm
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| | Unionists and Nationalists in Northern Ireland |
| | The Battle of the Boyne on 1st July 1690 in eastern Ireland left the Protestant William III (William of Orange) as King of Britain after he defeated the Catholic James II. | | | When the Church of England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, both Elizabeth I and James I encouraged English and Scottish Protestants to move to Ireland, which is called the 'Plantation' of Ulster, in 1603. | | | His son is now in politics and has the same views as his father. |
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| | Northern Ireland - Sinn Fein - Worldpress.org |
| | Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble, first minister of the assembly, is losing support to hard-line unionists who have always opposed the Good Friday Agreement. | | | Republicans were encouraged to vote for it because it represented a transition toward a united Ireland; unionists were told to vote for it because it guaranteed the exact reverse
.Now most of the political difficulties in Northern Ireland over the last four years have resulted from the interaction of both these problems.” | | | The dissenting unionists fear that the electoral success achieved by Sinn Fein—it is on its way to overtaking the moderate nationalist party, the Social Democratic and Liberal Party (SDLP) as the largest nationalist party in Northern Ireland—may edge Sinn Fein closer to achieving a united Ireland. |
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http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/821.cfm
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| | Paddy Melt By Anne Applebaum |
| | Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair's Northern Ireland minister, was pretty direct: "Something better is not going to turn up," he told the Unionists. | | | The Troubles can hardly be placed on the shoulders of Republicans alone. | | | Anne Applebaum is a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/83330
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| | CNN.com - N.Ireland: Ulster Unionists call key meeting - October 13, 2000 |
| | If opponents of the Good Friday peace accord succeed in persuading the council to withdraw from the joint administration, it would place pressure on party leader David Trimble, first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly. | | | The Ulster Unionists agreed last November to form a four-party coalition government that included members of Sinn Fein, the republican political party. | | | Some members of the Ulster Unionists -- the main Protestant party in Northern Ireland -- want the party to withdraw from the joint Protestant-Catholic administration. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/UK/10/13/belfast.ulster
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| | Unionist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Unionist Party (Canada) was a merger of parties that led Canada during WWI. | | | Unionist is also a term used to describe someone loyal to the Union Forces during the American Civil War. | | | Unionists are people in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales who were historically in favour of uniting their nations into a United Kingdom, or who in modern times wish their nations to remain part of the United Kingdom. |
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http://www.kernersville.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Unionist
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