Okay. The bigger question could be is how you learnt this now. Considering it interested you enough to post about it.

You open Wikipedia and repeatedly press the random article button until you get an article you wanna post about.

Yeah, nah. Thanks for the tip though

Wikipedia surfing, in relation to something I heard about the voting franchise in Northern Ireland being behind the rest of the UK in giving one man(/person), one vote.

I was surprised as we covered a lot of the Northern Ireland stuff in school but mainly starting in 1972, and the parliament and its dissolution wasn't mentioned at all. It seems a fairly substantial thing to just ignore and not teach in the slightest, and definitely important in understanding where problems started from.

And I have never heard it brought up during any of the coverage of northern Ireland at all. Seems a very odd thing to ignore.

Of the four countries that constitute the United Kingdom (Wales, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland) only England doesn't have it's own, dedicated parliament.

And Northern Ireland has a parliament to this very day, as do Scotland and Wales.

The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (the six counties of the north of Ireland).

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I daresay that there would be an English parliament if England was 50% of the population rather than 85%

And the second prime minister of Northern Ireland was the older brother of Thomas Andrews, the man who designed the Titanic.

The NI parliament just gets boycotted by its members, whenever they're trying to get their own way against Westminster, or when they really can't get along with each other, or when they want Westminster to force through a contentious issue (e.g. legalisation of abortion) to avoid losing voters by doing it themselves.

Lol