English word senses marked with place category "Northern Ireland"

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Parent categories: Ireland, United Kingdom, British Isles, Europe, Islands, Earth, Eurasia, Places, Nature, Names
Subcategories: Counties of Northern Ireland, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, County Down, Northern Ireland, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Total 26 word senses

• Antrim (Proper name) A county in northeastern Northern Ireland.
• Armagh (Proper name) One of the six traditional counties in Northern Ireland.
• Belfast confetti (Noun) Large ship-building rivets, nuts, bolts and other metal scrap used as missiles by Protestant shipyard workers during sectarian rioting in Belfast.
• Belfastman (Noun) A man from Belfast in Northern Ireland.
• Black and Tan (Noun) A member of the RIC British paramilitary force, operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.
• Derry (Proper name) One of the traditional counties in northwestern Northern Ireland; known as County Derry, or officially as County Londonderry.
• Down (Proper name) One of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland, usually known as County Down.
• Fermanagh (Proper name) One of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland.
• Holyland (Proper name) A neighbourhood in south Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• IRA (Proper name) Initialism of Irish Republican Army.
• Irish Republican Army (Proper name) Any of several Irish guerrilla or terrorist organisations fighting British rule in Ireland (later Northern Ireland) since the early 20th century.
• Londonderry (Proper name) One of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland, known as County Londonderry or County Derry.
• Norn Iron (Proper name) Northern Ireland.
• Orangeman (Noun) A member of the Orange Order, a Protestant society in the United Kingdom (especially Northern Ireland).
• Six Counties (Proper name) The six Irish counties that form Northern Ireland.
• Stormont (Proper name) The Northern Ireland Assembly.
• Stormontgate (Proper name) A 2002 scandal around allegations of a Provisional IRA spy ring operating in the Stormont parliamentary buildings.
• Troubles (Proper name) The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.
• Tyrone (Proper name) A placename; A county of Northern Ireland, Ireland island, United Kingdom; One of the six traditional counties in Northern Ireland, often known as County Tyrone.
• Ulster (Proper name) The six counties that make up Northern Ireland.
• Ulster Scots (Proper name) The descendants of Scottish settlers in the Irish province of Ulster, mostly in present-day Northern Ireland.
• Ulsterman (Noun) Any male coming from or living in the northern Irish province of Ulster.
• Ulsterwoman (Noun) A woman from Ulster, Ireland.
• urban district (Noun) a type of local government district, which was created in 1894 in urbanised areas of England and Wales outside boroughs, and in 1898 in Ireland. Abolished in 1974 except those in the Republic of Ireland, which were retitled as towns in 2002.
• 112 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services on all GSM cell phones and in the EU, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome, the Seychelles, Uganda, East Timor, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Vatican City, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and S…
• 999 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and the Seychelles.

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