The Ulster Unionist Party is a Policyless Party - On This Day in 1925
Thousands of men and women in city, town and country had to leave their homes, offices, warehouses and farms to devote part ...
James Craig’s ‘border election’ 100 years ago and how nationalists came to terms with the new northern state
For nationalists in Belfast and east Ulster, there had been much debate since 1921 about whether (or not) to accept the ...
BBC UK News5mon
Which is the oldest political party still standing?
In 1988 the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party merged into what is now the Liberal Democrats. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the formation of many of Northern Ireland's modern ... which ...
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The “Tragic Maps” of the Plantation of Ulster - On This Day in 1925
JUST three hundred years ago a highly important piece of work was being carried through in certain parts of Ulster by a worthy ... Going to Ireland was looked on as a miserable mark of a ...
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The Origins of Northern Ireland
The exclusion of Ulster ... Government of Ireland Act 1920, they still contested the election for the northern parliament. Sinn Féin won six seats, the United Irish League Party (an iteration ...
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Sinn Fein which calls for a united Ireland, becomes largest party in Northern Ireland
The Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, has become the largest party in Northern Ireland in Sunday's local ... preference vote share also for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Social Democratic ...