NORTHERN IRELAND

Northern Ireland is the smallest of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland and sharing its only land border with the Republic of Ireland. It was created as a distinct political entity in 1921 following the partition of Ireland and was the site of a prolonged ethno-nationalist conflict known as the Troubles, which lasted from the late 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 established a power-sharing government and brought a formal end to three decades of violence.

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