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Border changes as proposed by the Irish Boundary Commission, 1925. A de facto border was established by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, in which the British Government established (or attempted to establish) two devolved administrations within the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
Partition of Ireland in 1920 into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. This partition was only partially implemented as, following the Irish War of Independence, Southern Ireland became the Irish Free State; Treaty of Kars of 1921, which partitioned Ottoman Armenia between Turkey and the Soviet Union (Western and Eastern Armenia).
A map showing the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which was fixed in 1921 and confirmed in 1925. The Irish Boundary Commission (Irish: Coimisiún na Teorann) [1] met in 1924–25 to decide on the precise delineation of the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.
The border at Killeen (viewed from the UK side) marked only by a metric (km/h) speed limit sign. Originally intended as an internal boundary within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the border was created in 1921 under the United Kingdom Parliament's Government of Ireland Act 1920. [5]
Northern and Southern Ireland. The Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5.c. 67) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the better government of Ireland"; it is also known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill or (inaccurately) as the Fourth Home Rule Act and informally known as the Partition Act. [3]
The Northern Ireland Protocol of the Brexit withdrawal agreement commits the UK and the EU to maintaining an open border in Ireland, so that (in many respects) the de facto frontier is the Irish Sea border between the two islands. This requires the continued application of the Common Travel Area as well as free trade of goods (including ...
Goods from Northern Ireland may be moved without restriction to Great Britain but not conversely. Thus, in place of a Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland land border, the protocol has created a de facto customs border in the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from Great Britain, [4] [5] [6] to the disquiet of prominent Unionists. [9]
[4] [8] This definition implies, for example, that the majority of the border disputes in the history of Latin America were not forms of irredentism. [12] Usually, irredentism is defined in terms of the motivation of the irredentist state, even if the territory is annexed against the will of the local population. [13]