A gruesome battle happened there during the Ulster Plantation It was the site of an ancient massacre in Celtic times. During sunset, rocks off the coast give off a particularly intense red hue Nobody actually knows Because their blood is cold (it never gets higher than 10 degrees Celsius) Because they cannot produce heat in their own bodies, and have to rely on their surroundings to keep warm Because their blood is colder than humans (but it s still relatively warm) Because they are ruthless killers Why does Dracula feast on the blood of humans? To rejuvenate his youth and strength To replenish his own supply
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Northern Ireland turns 100 amid renewed worries tied to Brexit Laura King © (Peter Morrison / Associated Press) Nationalist youths face a police line blocking a road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on April 8, 2021. Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. (Peter Morrison / Associated Press)
Northern Ireland was created 100 years ago Monday, but the day passed with little fanfare.
Part of the reason for low-key commemorations was the coronavirus, with disease precautions putting a damper on large gatherings. But part of the reason was that few were certain of what exactly to celebrate.
The six counties that make up the island’s northeast quadrant are certainly far more peaceful now than during “the Troubles,” some three decades of violent sectarian conflict that largely ended in the late 1990s. But now a big new question mark hangs over the future of Northern Ireland, which is part of
It was a source of grievance for nationalists - and for unionists it was the least worst compromise arrangement. Alvin Jackson on how unionists came around to the idea of Northern Ireland
The partition of Ireland, which was established through the Government of Ireland Act (1920), created controversy when it was first widely discussed, from about 1912 onwards; and it remains a central difficult issue in the public life of the two Irish polities.
The historical narrative of the theme tends conventionally to emphasise the history of English and Scottish migration and colonisation in the north of Ireland, whether informally or through private settlement in Antrim and Down (and Monaghan), or through the formal British plantation scheme pursued in western and southern Ulster from 1609 onwards.