单词 | twenty-six counties |
释义 | > as lemmasTwenty-six Counties Twenty-six Counties n. the counties which by the Irish peace agreement of 1921–2 formed the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland; cf. Six Counties n. at six adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun] > Republic Kathleen Ni Houlihan1841 Irish Free State1921 Saorstát Éireann1922 Twenty-six Counties1922 south1924 1922 Times 6 June 16/2 The requirement that Ulster shall deliberately ‘contract out’ of the arrangements made between Great Britain and the twenty-six Southern counties. 1922 Times 6 June 16/2 If Mr. Griffith is right in claiming all but two per cent. of the population in the twenty-six counties as supporters of the Treaty. 1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited viii. 102 The Bantrymen have always provided a strong contingent in the Government of the Twenty-six Counties ever since 1922. 1978 D. Murphy Place Apart ii. 33 In Northern Ireland one has a wide choice of names for the rest of the island: the Twenty-six Counties, the Free State, Southern Ireland, the South, Eire and the Republic of Ireland. 1979 W. Nelson Minstrel Code vi. 45 The garage..belonged to a brother-in-law of one of the Sinn Fein leaders in the Twenty-Six Counties... O'Hagan explained that, within the IRA, no one talked of the ‘Irish Republic’ by any term other than this. < as lemmas |
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