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* 1994 – The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, killing six civilians and wounding five.
The issue divided Ireland, for a significant unionist minority ( largely though by no means exclusively based in Ulster ), opposed Home Rule, fearing that a Catholic-Nationalist parliament in Dublin would discriminate against them and would also impose tariffs on industry ; while most of Ireland was primarily agricultural, six counties in Ulster were the location of heavy industry and would be affected by any tariff barriers imposed.
While these six counties and two parliamentary boroughs were all in the province of Ulster, three other counties of the province-Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan were assigned to the Irish Free State.
The legislation for Irish Home Rule was due to come into effect, allowing for the two-year delay under the Parliament Act, in 1914 – by which time the Cabinet were discussing allowing the six predominantly Protestant counties of Ulster to opt out of the arrangement, which was ultimately suspended owing to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.
Northern Ireland as defined by the Act, amounting to six of the nine counties of Ulster, was seen as the maximum area within which Unionists could be expected to have a safe majority.
Unionists ( including Ulster Unionist Labour Association ) previously 19, won 26 seats on 305, 206 ( 30. 2 %) votes, all but three of which were in the six counties that today form Northern Ireland, and the IPP won only six ( down from 84 in 1910 ), all but one in Ulster, on 220, 837 ( 21. 7 %) votes cast.
Strongly opposed to the partition of Ireland in any form, Redmond and his party reluctantly agreed to what they understood would be a trial exclusion of now six years ; under Redmond's aspiration that " Ulster will have to follow ", he was belatedly prepared to concede a large measure of autonomy to it to come in.
The new autonomous Northern Ireland was formed from six of the nine counties of Ulster: four counties with unionist majorities, and Fermanagh and Tyrone, two of the five Ulster counties which had nationalist majorities.
On 6 August, the Conservatives learnt that Asquith planned to put the Home Rule Bill on the statute books ; Law wrote an angry letter to Asquith, the response of which was that Asquith could either pass the bill immediately, suspending it for the duration of the conflict, or make it law with a six month delay and with a three year exclusion for Ulster.
The mainly Roman Catholic Irish republicans or nationalists community, mainly descended from the native Irish inhabitants, identify as Irish and want the six counties of Northern Ireland ( sometimes referred to as " Ulster ") currently part of the United Kingdom to leave the UK and unite with the Republic of Ireland.
Conaire, protected by his champion Mac Cécht and the Ulster hero Conall Cernach, kills six hundred before he reaches his weapons, a further six hundred with his weapons.
The IPP won six seats in Ireland, all but one of which were in Ulster.
The Ulster unionists led by Edward Carson insisted on the partition of six Ulster counties from the rest of Ireland stating that the 1916 rebellion proved a parliament in Dublin could not be trusted.
Carson secured a separate Home Rule regime for six of the nine Ulster counties ( being the only four Unionist majority counties but also including two counties with Nationalist majorities ) as Northern Ireland, with the remaining 26 counties of Ireland forming Southern Ireland with its own institutions.
The power-sharing Executive which he led lasted only six months and was brought down by a loyalist Ulster Workers Council Strike in May 1974.
At launch, Ulster Television employed a staff of 100 people including six presenters: Ivor Mills and Anne Gregg were chosen as the presenters of local magazine programme Roundabout, Adrienne McGuill, James Greene and Brian Durkin were the first continuity announcers, and former rugby union international Ernest Strathdee was recruited as the station's sports presenter.
The new autonomous Northern Ireland was formed from six of the nine counties of Ulster, being four counties with unionist majorities, and Fermanagh and Tyrone two of the five Ulster counties which had nationalist majorities.

six and counties
County Fermanagh () ( or " men of the monks ") is the only one of six counties that form Northern Ireland to not adjoin Lough Neagh.
In Northern Ireland, a major reorganisation of local government in 1973 replaced the six traditional counties and two county boroughs ( Belfast and Derry ) with 26 single-tier districts for local government purposes.
In the " Region " column of the table below, except for the six Northern Ireland counties the reference is to NUTS 3 statistical regions of the Republic of Ireland.
Also not shown are the former county boroughs of Londonderry ( now Derry City ) and Belfast which in Northern Ireland had the same legal status as the six counties until the reorganisation of local government in 1973.
Until the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland in 1998 the Irish Republic claimed the territory of six counties that form Northern Ireland.
The term ' shire ' is not used in the names of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland.
He also extended the franchise to agricultural labourers and others in the 1884 Reform Act, which gave the counties the same franchise as the boroughs — adult male householders and £ 10 lodgers — and added about six million to the total number who could vote in parliamentary elections.
In Northern Ireland, the six county councils, if not their counties, were abolished in 1973 and replaced by 26 local government districts.
The traditional six counties remain in common everyday use for many cultural and other purposes.
Within Colorado the San Luis Valley is generally considered to comprise six Colorado counties: Saguache, Alamosa, Rio Grande, Conejos, Costilla and Mineral.
named after its former county town, Antrim ) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland.
Kings County was one of the original counties, and Brooklyn was one of the original six towns within Kings County.
This county included six current counties, and by repeated splitting, new ones were generated: Frederick from Prince George's in 1748 ; and Montgomery and Washington from Frederick in 1776.
This original county included six current counties.
Through comparison of what details are recorded in which counties, six " circuits " can be determined ( plus a seventh circuit for the Little Domesday shires ).
Cromwell circulated injunctions for their enforcement which went beyond the Articles themselves, provoking opposition in September and October in Lincolnshire, and then throughout the six northern counties.
County Tyrone () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.
Sullivan County is the name of six counties in the United States of America:
Delaware County is the name of six counties in the United States of America:
Citing these six seats in addition with five seats from smaller counties that also tend to vote pan-blue, has been seen as giving the pan-blue coalition 11 seats before the first vote is counted ().
Local residents generally use the term Denver area or Denver metro area which may informally mean anything from the continuously urbanized area within the six central counties of the MSA to the Front Range Urban Corridor north of Colorado Springs and south of Fort Collins.
The ensuing wild flight and pursuit back to Memphis carried across six counties before the exhausted Confederates retired.

six and Antrim
As brigadier of the West Belfast UDA Adair was entitled to one of the six seats on the organisation's Inner Council and in this role Adair, who wanted to continue on the path of violence, clashed frequently with East Antrim brigadier Joe English, who advocated seeking a peace settlement.
In time the soldiers making the journey from Carrickfergus to Antrim reached the river at this spot when they had traveled six miles so began to call the Ollar the Six Mile Water.
In time the soldiers making the journey from Carrickfergus to Antrim reached the river at this spot when they had travelled six miles ( 10 km ) so began to call the Ollar the Six Mile Water.
Antrim have won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship six times and been runners-up ten times.
Antrim married Alice, daughter of Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, by whom, besides six daughters, he had Randal, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of Antrim, and Alexander, 3rd earl.

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