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Over a quarter of people in the six counties say they have changed their mind since the Brexit vote and now support a united Ireland – bringing polling for a referendum to 45 per cent staying in the UK and 42 per cent leaving it, with 13 per cent undecided. ^ "LT NI Tracker Poll (October 2017) – Results Report".
The Anglo-Irish Treaty, which led to the establishment in December 1922 of a dominion called the Irish Free State, recognised partition, but this was opposed by anti-Treaty republicans. When the anti-Treaty Fianna Fáil party came to power in the 1930s, it adopted a new constitution which claimed sovereignty over the entire island.
The question of a referendum on Irish unity is not a priority and does not “arise currently”, Simon Harris has said. Ireland’s premier said it was more important for the new UK Government to ...
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement (Irish: Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste; Ulster Scots: Guid Friday Greeance or Bilfawst Greeance) [1] is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April (Good Friday) 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict [2] in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.
It is the second constitution of the Irish state since independence, replacing the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State. [ 1] It came into force on 29 December 1937 following a statewide plebiscite held on 1 July 1937. The Constitution may be amended solely by a national referendum. [ 2]
Ireland's main opposition party, Sinn Fein, outlined a stricter immigration policy on Tuesday after identifying its lack of clarity on the issue as a major reason for a poor showing at local ...
The state known today as Ireland is the successor state to the Irish Free State, which existed from December 1922 to December 1937.At its foundation, the Irish Free State was, in accordance with its constitution and the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, governed as a constitutional monarchy, in personal union with the monarchy of the United Kingdom and other members of what was then called the ...
Sinn Fein has emerged for the first time as the party in Northern Ireland with the largest representation at Westminster.