Queen's University Of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency)
Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation. In 1969 the constituency was abolished under reforms carried out by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
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But if that effort be too great,
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