Stormontn.
/ˈstɔːmɒnt/, /ˈstɔːm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈstɔrˌmɑnt/ Used to denote: (a) the administration presided over by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (the Northern Ireland Office), housed at Stormont Castle; (b) the Northern Ireland parliament which met at the Parliament House in the grounds of Stormont Castle from 1920 until its suspension in 1972.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in Northern Ireland
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1934 H. Maxwell Ulster was Right 9 The Act which created Stormont provided also for a similar Parliament in Dublin.
1935 Frontier Sentinel 22 June 4/4 The strongest supporter of Stormont rule.
1938 Irish News 3 Feb. 2/3 Stormont is not a de jure Government.
1949 St. J. Ervine Craigavon iii. x. 418 Some very queer fish have been elected to Stormont,..but Stormont, at its worst, has never declined to the depths of Leinster House.
1957 Times 9 Dec. p. ii/3 The Government of Northern Ireland Act by which Stormont was established in 1920 was not a response to local demands.
1971 H. Wilson Labour Govt. xxxv. 719 Our own back-benchers expressing their criticisms of Stormont and the Unionists in speeches designed to strengthen the arm of the Home Secretary.
1972 Guardian 25 Mar. 1/2 Mr Brian Faulkner, who has been Northern Ireland's sixth Prime Minister..will tender his resignation on Tuesday... He will end the existence of that..provincial assembly which has become known..by the name of the building where the Parliament sits—Stormont.
1975 Times 10 Sept. 1/3 Stormont officials attempted to put a brave face on the situation.
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Stormont agreement n. Politics any of various agreements reached during talks at Stormont Castle on the political future of Northern Ireland; spec. = Good Friday agreement n. at Good Friday n. Compounds 2.
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1974 Irish Times 23 May 1/5 They believe it was a serious mistake to publish the Stormont agreement while the Ulster Workers' Council strike is still in progress.
1985 Times 15 Nov. 5/2 1973, November: Stormont agreement on power-sharing in North.
1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Sept. 7 Deaglan de Breadun, Northern Editor, looks at the fallout from the historic Stormont agreement and the outlook for substantive negotiations.
1998 Sunday Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. He was shot by members of the INLA, another republican splinter group capable of disrupting any Stormont agreement.
1998 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 11 Apr. Mr Trimble said the Stormont agreement made the Union stronger than ever before but the weapons issue appeared to have the potential to tear his party apart.
2012 C. Jess-Cooke Boy who could see Demons viii. 83 None of these kids recall anything beyond the Stormont Agreement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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