Sentence examples for ireland from inspiring English sources
"Ireland" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the country that is located in the northwestern part of Europe, or to refer to its people, culture, history, etc. Example: "Irish literature has some of the most beautiful prose ever written."
proper noun
A large island in northwest Europe.
Northern Ireland secretary John Reid has until Saturday night to find a compromise between Sinn Fein and David Trimble's Ulster Unionists on decommissioning, police reform and demilitarisation, or again suspend the assembly (either indefinitely or for six weeks) or call fresh elections.
But Liz Bingham, EY's managing partner for talent in the UK & Ireland, argues that there is a place for them: "Women-only networks are about so much more than prosecco and cupcakes.
Yet even when the security forces did actually recruit or send agents of the state into real terrorist organisations in the north of Ireland they too all too often crossed the line and broke the law.
Some both within and without Northern Ireland have called for a comprehensive, wide-ranging international inquiry into the dirty war.
Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland secretary, also appealed to unionist leaders to return to the negotiating table over controversial parades, the flying of flags and the legacy of Ulster's violent past.
As talks resumed at Stormont to revive the assembly, under the chairmanship of the Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, and junior Irish foreign minister Tom Kitt, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness urged the hardline DUP to strike a deal as quickly as possible.
Chief executives of companies such as Burberry, Tesco, Vodafone, BAE Systems, Prudential and GSK were keen to take a final opportunity to lobby the prime minister in advance of the meeting of political leaders in Northern Ireland.
Useful links Ulster Unionists Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Fein Social Democratic and Labour Party Belfast Telegraph Irish Times Irish News Northern Ireland Office Cain (Conflict Archive on the web).
The situation in Northern Ireland, overshadowed by the attacks in the US, is heading towards uncharted territory.
The first minister has called for an emergency debate on the issue in the Northern Ireland assembly on Friday.
"We will propose a 'double majority' rule – meaning that unless England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each vote to leave the EU, as well as the UK as a whole, Britain would remain a member state".
