Southern Ireland
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The plane diverted to the coast of Southern Ireland, and witnesses say the pilot twice aborted landing while winds reached 80 mph.
From Fox News • Feb. 23, 2022
The treaty had to be ratified by the UK Parliament and "a meeting of members of Parliament elected for constituencies in Southern Ireland since the passing of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920".
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2021
Ireland had been partitioned into two entities - Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland - when the Government of Ireland Act came into effect in May 1921.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2021
The compromise which they at length agreed upon concerned the much contested frontier between Ulster and the Irish Free State� between industrial Protestant Northern Ireland and agrarian Catholic Southern Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
On another new clause, providing for the administration of Southern Ireland in the event of a Parliament not being set up, Mr. Asquith declared that "this musty remainder biscuit" had reduced him to "rhetorical poverty."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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