Before 1922, all of Ireland was ruled directly from Westminster close WestminsterThe London location of the British government.. However, many Irish people wanted independence from Britain.

believing many areas in Northern Ireland would be transferred to the Irish Free State. The optimism over the Boundary Commission, in many ways, explains the fraction of time devoted to partition ...

The Partition of Ireland during the early 20th century led to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland and British-controlled Northern Ireland. After the Partition, the IRA, dedicated to ...

For nationalists in Belfast and east Ulster, there had been much debate since 1921 about whether (or not) to accept the ...

Several critics note how Ireland’s psychological partition resulted in the partitionist structure of Irish Studies, whereby Northern Ireland is treated as a separate subject. This was especially ...

The part played by George Mitchell ’54, H’83 in keeping the Northern Ireland peace process going during the mid-’90s was a ...

Glaslough (the village) has a population of about 150; it is only six miles distant from Monaghan town, but it is just over the boundary of Armagh; on the “Northern” side of the boundary there ...

The Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, has announced his revised plans for the introduction of Home Rule for Ireland ... were echoed across Ulster. The Northern Whig, a leading unionist newspaper ...