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Northern Ireland a brief outline

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Facts Figures

• Main language English
• Other recognised languages Irish, Ulster Scots
• Capital Belfast
• First Minister Office currently suspended
• Secretary of State for NI Peter Hain, MP
• Area 13 843 km²
• Population (2001) 1 685 267
• National flower shamrock
• National anthem God Save the Queen (de facto
  Londonderry Air)
• Patron saint St. Patrick

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Cities of Northern Ireland

• Belfast (capital) 270 000
• Londonderry 84 000
• Lisburn 71 000
• Newry 28 000
• Armagh 14 500

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A profusion of names

• Ulster
• The Province
• Northern Ireland
• North of Ireland
• The Six Counties
• The Occupied Six Counties

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Economy

• GDP 37 bn/ 19 600 per capita (more per capita
  than Wales or North-East England)
• Heavy industry concentrated on Belfast machinery
  equipment manufacturing, food processing,
  textiles, electronics
• Services account for 70 of output
• Agriculture primarily livestock and dairy

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History

• St. Patrick (arrived 432 AD)
• Early Christian Ireland up to ca. 800 AD
• Golden age of monastic writing and art
  (missionaries from Ireland went elsewhere in
  Europe)

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History

• 800 1166
• Viking raids
• Settlement
• Tuath

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History

• 1169 Norman Invasion
• Numerous campaigns between 1534 and 1691 as
  England tried to gain ascendance
• 1607 Flight of the Earls
• 1607 onwards Ulster plantations

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History of the conflict 1690 - 1922

• 1690 Battle of the Boyne
• 1801 Act of Union
• 1880s onwards, campaign for home rule
• (three bills, final agreement in 1914)
• 1916 Easter rising
• 1920 1922 Partition

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History of the conflict1968 - 2006

• 1968 The Troubles begin
• January 1972 Bloody Sunday
• March 1972 Direct Rule from London imposed
• 1981 10 IRA prisoners die after hunger strike
• 1998 Good Friday Agreement
• 2002 Stormont Assembly suspended following
  spying allegations
• 2005 Decommissioning of weapons
• 2006 Stormont recalled St. Andrews
  Agreement...

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Political make-up of NI today
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Irish icons

• National flower shamrock
• Patron saint St. Patrick (17th March)
• National anthem (ROI) A Soldiers song
  - (NI) God save the Queen (de facto, the
  Londonderry Air)

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• Which three languages are recognised in NI?
• What is the population of NI?
• Which sector of industry accounts for about 70
  of NIs output?
• Which geographical feature was, according to
  legend, built by Finn mac Cumhail?
• Where can you see the Book of Kells?
• Which is NIs second largest city?
• What is NIs national flower?
• Who fought at the Battle of the Boyne?
• In which city did the Easter Rising take place?
• When did the Troubles begin?
• What happened on Bloody Sunday?
• Which hunger striker stood for parliament, won a
  seat and died, all while in prison?
• Which of the following political parties have
  Republican affilliation and which are Unionist?
  1. Sinn Fein 2. DUP 3. UUP 4. SDLP
• Where does the NI Assembly meet?
• Why was the Assembly suspended in 2002?

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• Which three languages are recognised in NI?
• What is the population of NI?
• Which sector of industry accounts for about 70
  of NIs output?
• Which geographical feature was, according to
  legend, built by Finn mac Cumhail?
• Where can you see the Book of Kells?
• Which is NIs second largest city?
• What is NIs national flower?
• Who fought at the Battle of the Boyne?

English, Irish (Gaelic), Ulster Scots 1 685 267
Services The Giants Causeway Trinity College,
Dublin Londonderry Shamrock James II (VII)
against William of Orange
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Dublin 1968 British troops fired on a group of
NICRM demonstrators Bobby Sands Republican Sinn
Fein, SDLP Unionist DUP, UUP Stormont Castle,
Belfast The UUP refused to take part in the
Assembly, following arrests of Sinn Fein members
for spying

• In which city did the Easter Rising take place?
• When did the Troubles begin
• What happened on Bloody Sunday?
• Which hunger striker stood for parliament, won a
  seat and died, all while in prison?
• Which of the following political parties have
  Republican affilliation and which are Unionist?
  1. Sinn Fein 2. DUP 3. UUP
• 4. SDLP
• Where does the NI Assembly meet?
• Why was the Assembly suspended in 2002?