Qualla: Northern Ireland https://qualla.com/northern-ireland en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Northern Ireland https://qualla.com/northern-ireland Northern Ireland: Introduction https://qualla.com/northern-ireland/ The mapmakers settled it in 1921 by drawing a line through three of Ulster's nine counties and leaving the other six on the British side. The line was less a boundary than a calculation: six counties, drawn carefully enough to give Protestants a comfortable majority. That arithmetic became a country - or a province, or a region, depending on whose tongue is doing the naming. A century later, 1.9 million people live inside that line, with the Mourne Mountains in the south, the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway on the north Antrim coast, and Lough Neagh - the largest lake in the British Isles - holding the centre. There is no settled term for what Northern Ireland is. Even its name remains contested.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/n/northern-ireland-wp/gcen-northern-ireland-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Northern Ireland: Before the Border https://qualla.com/northern-ireland/ Long before the line, this corner of the island was the heart of Gaelic Ireland. The Ulaid gave Ulster its name. Their successors, the O'Neill dynasty, ruled most of the province from hilltop strongholds like Dungannon. After the Tudor and Stuart conquests, and especially after t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/n/northern-ireland-wp/gcen-northern-ireland-the-six-counties.mp3 0:06 4 full Northern Ireland: The Troubles https://qualla.com/northern-ireland/ By the late 1960s, a civil rights movement modelled on the American one was marching against gerrymandered constituencies and discriminatory housing. The marches were attacked. Loyalist paramilitaries reformed under the old Ulster Volunteer Force name. The Provisional IRA emerged...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/n/northern-ireland-wp/gcen-northern-ireland-the-troubles.mp3 0:06 5 full Northern Ireland: A Power-Sharing Country https://qualla.com/northern-ireland/ On 3 February 2024, Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin was sworn in as First Minister - the first Irish nationalist, republican or Catholic ever to hold that office. The symbolism was vast: a party that had been the political wing of the Provisional IRA now held the top office in a st...

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