Demography Of Northern Ireland
The total population estimate for Northern Ireland as recorded by the UK Census 2011 was 1,810,863 of whom 887,323 were men and 923,540 were women. This is an increase of 125,800 (7.5%) over the ten-year period since the last census.
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“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“‘What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I,
I, this incessant snow,
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“The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
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