#six counties

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1922 – The Parliament of the occupied six counties of Northern Ireland opt out of the Free State.

The parliament of Northern Ireland exercises its option to opt out of the Irish Free State and petitions King George V: “MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Senators and Commons of Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, having learnt of the passing of the Irish Free State Constitution Act, 1922, being the Act of Parliament for the ratification of…

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[readingpeacebypiece]

We've been without government for weeks, no one was taking action on it or even talking about it in Westminster and British media and now right when there was a push for an executive all the government's are shut down in the middle of a cost of living crisis leaving working class people without representation or action all because some pedophiles mother kicked it- well she went out doing what she loved, screwing over the colonies

[seachranaidhe]

THE BASTARD STATE

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-bastard-state/

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[garr8]

Traditional Irish Cottage.

My painting of a beautiful thatched roof cottage, that I came across, sited on the edge of Keenaghan Lough. About five minutes drive outside of Belleek along the Boa Island Road, County Fermanagh.

[surfqueenoftheisles]

Wow being Irish republican and being American republican are two very different things

[bradthings]

Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, early 1970s.

[radicalarchive]

‘Women In Struggle’, Sinn Fein Women’s Department, Dublin, Ireland, 1988.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1608 – Preparations commence for the plantation of six Ulster counties (Armagh, Cavan, Coleraine, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone).

The Plantation of Ulster was presented to James I as a joint “British”, or English and Scottish, venture to ‘pacify’ and ‘civilise’ Ulster, with at least half the settlers to be Scots. James had been King of Scots before he also became King of England and needed to reward his subjects in Scotland with land in Ulster to assure them they were not being neglected now that he had moved his court to…

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