Strabane once had the dubious distinction of having the highest unemployment rate in the European Union, although in recent years the town has recovered to an extent economically. However, the inevitable closure of the town's largest employer, the Adria factory, will see the town plunge into economic chaos with huge ramifications. Strabane was badly scarred by the Troubles, beginning in the early 1970s and continuing throughout much of the 1990s, with bombings commonplace and Irish Republican paramilitary groups, mainly the Provisiona ...

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). Initially an academic, he served as President of Princeton University and was the 45th state Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, the first having been Andrew Jackson, and his terms in office spanned his country's involvement in World War I. Woodrow Wilson - Early life education and family. Thoma ...

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Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus "what shall we give in return for so much" Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland, of which it is the capital. In the 2001 Census the population within the city limits (Belfast Urban Area) was 276,459, while c.800,000 people live in the Greater Belfast area or Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area. The city is situated at the south-western end of Belfast Lough, a long natural inlet ideal for the shipping trade that made the ...

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This article describes the positions of world governments prior to the actual initiation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and not their current positions as they may have changed since then. Governments' positions pre-2003 invasion of Iraq - Background. In 2002, the United States began to campaign for the overthrow of Iraq's dictatorial president, Saddam Hussein. The United States, under the administration of George W. Bush, argued that Saddam Hussein was a threat to global peace, a vicious tyrant, and a sponsor of i ...

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The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election are: Billy Armstrong Ulster Unionist Party Geraldine Dougan Sinn Fein William McCrea Democratic Unionist Party Patsy McGlone Social Democratic and Labour Party Martin McGuinness Sinn Fein Francis Molloy Sinn Fein Changes Francis Molloy was suspended from Sinn Fein on ...

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Northern Ireland was covered by an ice sheet for most of the last ice age and on numerous previous occasions, the legacy of which can be seen in the extensive coverage of drumlins in Counties Fermanagh, Armagh, Antrim and particularly Down. The centrepiece of Northern Ireland's geography is Lough Neagh, at 151 mi² (392 km²) the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles. A second extensive lake system is centred on Lower and Upper Lough Erne in Fermanagh. There are substantial uplands in the Sperrin Mountains (an extension of the ...

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O'Nolan wrote prodigiously during his years as a student at University College Dublin, contributing to the student magazine Comhthrom Féinne under various guises, in particular the pseudonym 'Brother Barnabas'. Significantly, he composed a story during this same period entitled "Scenes in a Novel (probably posthumous) by Brother Barnabas", which anticipates many of the ideas and themes later to be found in his novel At Swim-Two-Birds. In it, the putative author of the story finds himself in riotous conflict with his characters ...

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The split in the Irish Republican Army, soon followed by a parallel split in Sinn Féin, was the result of the dissatisfaction of more traditional and militant republicans at the political direction taken by the leadership. Particular objects of their discontent were the IRA's unwillingness to engage in armed action against the British state or military defence of Catholic areas in Northern Ireland, and Sinn Féin's ending of its policy of abstentionism in Ireland. This issue is a key one in republican ideology, as traditional republicans re ...

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Omagh - Omagh Bomb. The Real IRA bombed the town centre in August 1998, killing 29 people - 13 women, 9 children and 6 men. One of the women killed was pregnant with twins. See also: Omagh Bombing ...

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Wilson came of age in the decades after the Civil War, when Congress was supreme—"the gist of all policy is decided by the legislature"—and corruption rampant. Instead of focusing on individuals in explaining where American politics went wrong, Wilson focused on the American constitutional structure. (Congressional Government, 180) Under the influence of Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution, Wilson saw the American Constitution as pre-modern, cumbersome, and open to corruption. Before the vigorous presidencies o ...

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Letterkenny began as a market in the 17th century (thus starting before the Great Famine) and was the first crossing point of the River Swilly. Letterkenny achieved town status in the early 1920s following the partition of Ireland, when the Irish punt replaced the British Pound Sterling as the national currency of Ireland. This led to many Irish banks that had been previously located in the closest city, Derry (now in Northern Ireland), being forced to open branches in Co. Donegal, including in Letterkenny. Public services and industry followed the banks and led to Letterkenny being the fastest ...

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The lines controlled by the Joint Committee were: The Finn Valley Railway (FVR). This was the first railway in County Donegal, running 14 miles (22 km) from Strabane – on the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (L&ER) (later part of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland) – to Stranorlar. Built to the Irish standard gauge of 5 ft 3 in (1600 mm), it opened on 7 September 1863, with the L&ER supplying the rolling stock. (Original station stops: Strabane, Clady, Castlefin, Liscooly, Killygordon, Cavan, Town Bridge and St ...

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County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, County Donegal Railways Joint Committee - History of the Donegal Railways, County Donegal Railways Joint Committee - Statistics, County Donegal Railways Joint Committee - Closure

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Compared to unitary authorities in England, the Northern Ireland districts have small populations (average population of about 65,000). The district structure and the structure of other areas of public services in Northern Ireland were reviewed by the Review of Public Administration. On 22 November Peter Hain, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced proposals to reduce the number of councils to seven [1]. Although (outside Belfast) this is the same as the number of traditional counties of Northern Ireland, the borders have been set just about as different t ...

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The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the old Londonderry constituency. Since further revisions in 1995 (when it lost parts of the district of Strabane to the West Tyrone constituency) it now covers exactly the same area as Derry city. The name comes from the River Foyle which the city lies on and is used to avoid the contentious names of Derry or Londonderry, as well as to cover the areas of County Tyrone that were originally in the constituency. Foyle ...

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Foyle UK Parliament constituency, Foyle UK Parliament constituency - Boundaries, Foyle UK Parliament constituency - Proposed Boundary changes, Foyle UK Parliament constituency - History, Foyle UK Parliament constituency - Westminster elections, Foyle UK Parliament constituency - Members of Parliament, Foyle UK Parliament constituency - Elections, Foyle UK Parliament constituency - Assembly and Forum elections

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The Republic's motorway network is focused on Dublin, and is being extended to other major cities as part of the National Development Plan. Dublin has also been the focus of other major projects, such as the East-Link and West-Link bridges, as well as the Dublin port tunnel. Other cities and towns have however had bypass projects, some of which are still underway or in planning as of 2004. The Jack Lynch Tunnel under the River Lee (Ireland) in Cork was another major project outside Dublin, a ...

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The code is constructed top down from a 4 character code representing a unitary authority or administrative county & district, eg: Local Government wards have a two-letter code within their local authority, and census Output Areas an additional 4 digits within a ward. Output Areas are the smallest unit for which census data is published - they contain at least 40 households (preferably 100), and are built up from postcode blocks after the census data is available, with a view to being socially as homogeneous a ...

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Some historians dispute whether there is in fact a single, continuous Sinn Féin. Some merely see a collection of parties descended from each other, as its various leaderships in the 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s split, with other moving to form rival parties, most with new names, some keeping the words Sinn Féin in their title. The Sinn Féin of Arthur Griffith certainly has very little in common with the party currently in existence. Griffith had sought to re-establish the dual monarchy, which he contended was still l ...

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Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin - Modern Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin - Leaders and splits, Sinn Féin - History, Sinn Féin - Early days, Sinn Féin - The Easter Rising, Sinn Féin - First Elections, Sinn Féin - The Split over The Treaty, Sinn Féin - 1970 split into the Provisional and Official wings, Sinn Féin - Sinn Féin recent history, Sinn Féin - Sinn Féin organisational structure, Sinn Féin - The Peace Process, Sinn Féin - Belfast Agreement, Sinn Féin - Increase in support, Sinn Féin - Latest developments, Sinn Féin - Parties with origins in 1916-21 Sinn Féin

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Wilson came of age in the decades after the Civil War, when Congress was supreme—"the gist of all policy is decided by the legislature"—and corruption rampant. Instead of focusing on individuals in explaining where American politics went wrong, Wilson focused on the American constitutional structure. (Congressional Government, 180) Under the influence of Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution, Wilson saw the American Constitution as pre-modern, cumbersome, and open to corruption. Before the vigorous presidencies o ...

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On 24 May 1984 an inquiry under Deputy Chief Constable John Stalker of the Greater Manchester Police was opened into three specific cases where a "shoot-to-kill" policy had been alleged. These three cases were: 11 November 1982: The killing of three unarmed IRA members at an RUC checkpoint in Craigavon, County Armagh. 24 November 1982: The killing, by an RUC undercover unit, of Michael Tighe and the wounding of his friend Martin McCauley at an IRA arms cache which the two men had discovered by accident on a farm near Lu ...

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Shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland, Shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland - Stalker/Sampson Enquiry, Shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland - Court Rulings

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Shortly before the Iraq war began, the US government announced that 49 countries were joined in a "coalition of the willing" in favor of forcibly removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, with some number of other countries expressing their support in private. The 49 countries named by the White House were Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, ...

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