All the chats in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom, occupying the north-east of the island of Ireland which it shares with the independent state of Ireland. It consists of six of the nine counties in the Irish province of Ulster. It covers 14,139 km2, about one-sixth of the entire island and 5% of the United Kingdom. With a population of 1,810,863 according to the 2011 United Kingdom census, it accounts for between a quarter and a third of the island's population and 3% of the UK population. The capital and largest city in Northern Ireland is Belfast. Northern Ireland was created on May 3,1921 under the Government of Ireland Act, which divided Ireland between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

On December 6,1922, Northern Ireland became a region of the new Irish independent state, the Irish Free State, but the next day the Northern Ireland Parliament decided to leave the new state to remain within from the United Kingdom. The two communities of the territory clashed in the context of the Northern Irish conflict from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. Nationalist minorities, almost all of them Catholics, motivated by a desire for equal rights and The reunification of Ireland was against the Unionist majority, almost all Protestants, descendants of settlers settled in the seventeenth century, supporters of the status quo. Public disturbances in the late 1960s evolved in the early 1970s into a paramilitary campaign against the British state in Northern Ireland. The main actress was the Provisional Irish Republican Army who fought against the Royal Ulster Police, the former police force in Northern Ireland.

But in this war there have also been Unionist paramilitaries, the British Army and other nationalist paramilitaries. In 1998, an agreement was reached between the main political parties, and in 2007, a government agreement was concluded. He had the support of all the major parties of the state. The conflict has left deep psychosociological traces in cultural and political life in Northern Ireland. The divisions between the two communities are still very present. Flax, which was an important industry in the province's history, has become a symbol, accepted by both communities. The red hand of Ulster or the Ulster Banner are less consensual, since they represent since 1972 the Irish unionist movement, especially the fringe loyalist.