| Unionists should find that title as acceptable as 'province': Northern Ireland appears as a region in the regional statistics of the United Kingdom published by the British government | FitzGerald 1991 , Interpreting Northern Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, One problem must be adverted to in writing about Northern Ireland |
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| Its constitutional roots remain the , two complementary Acts, one passed by the , the other by the pre-1801 | : "The British government agree that it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone, by agreement between the two parts respectively, to exercise their right of self-determination on the basis of consent, freely and concurrently given, North and South, to bring about a united Ireland, if that is their wish |
The top-level division of administrative geography in the UK is the 4 countries — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
18| Murphy 1979 , A Place Apart, London: Penguin Books, Next - what noun is appropriate to Northern Ireland? Institute of Governance, 2006 "National identities in the UK: do they matter? Northern Ireland Assembly Information Office | " Details from attitude surveys are in |
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| House of Commons Library, 3 June 2008 | 18 1952—1966 10 55 0 |