...spoken by a small minority chiefly on the western seaboard. Northern Ireland Since 1921 a state within the United Kingdom. It consists of six of the nine...descended from original Scottish and English settlers, to remain within the British union. Old English A reference to the English settlers in pre-Reformation...

...pronounced as l\l leading to the so-called PEN/PIN merger. Northern Ireland Since 1921 a state within the United Kingdom. It consists of six of the nine...descended from original Scottish and English settlers, to remain within the British union. Old English A reference to the English settlers in pre-Reformation...

...created in the 'south' (now known as the Republic of Ireland) and divided from Northern Ireland (made up of six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster and a political constituent of the United Kingdom). Northern Ireland, a culturally and politically divided...

...population was 1,685,000, between a quarter and a third of the island's total population. Northern Ireland consists of six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster. The remainder of the island of Ireland is a sovereign state, the Republic of Ireland. Atlantic Ocean...