One fashionable view is that Britain was never more than a contingent political construction a product of the specific historical circumstances of imperial conquest by the English of Wales and Ireland, and the bargain that the Scots did with the English in the Act of Union of 1707.
Australia won in a time of 3:36.36, almost four seconds ahead of the English, with Northern Ireland promoted to bronze-medal position.
Until now, when a British delegation travelled abroad seeking trade, Northern Ireland had to compete with Scotland, Wales and English regions, whereas the Republic of Ireland stood alone.
Labour MP Tam Dalyell, whose constituency at the time was West Lothian, wondered how long English MPs would tolerate members from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland exercising an important effect on English politics while they themselves had no say in the matters outside England.
That is like saying "let's create a Jewish state in England, and all the English can go live in Ireland since they both speak the same language!"
He was keen to settle just as many English Protestants as Scottish ones in Ireland.
In Northern Ireland, a review of English GCSE grading has been ordered.
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Afridi has also played on the English domestic circuit with Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Ireland.
Established in 1969, the Man Booker is the best-known fiction prize for English-language authors from Commonwealth countries and Ireland.
Sectarianism lingers on in Northern Ireland, bits of Scotland and some English cities like Liverpool.
The Irish government's National Asset Management Agency (Nama) has effectively repossessed an English shopping centre that was owned by two of Northern Ireland's wealthiest property developers.
They looked at whether deaths from heart disease, stroke and 10 cancers linked with poor diet could be prevented in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, if everyone switched to the typical English diet.
But he has long held dual Irish citizenship, and his father, the English poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, was born in Ireland.
Until 1981, companies like Apple set up shop in Ireland because it offered not only an eager, English-speaking work force and ready access to European markets, but a 10 year tax rate of zero percent.
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The Northern Ireland exams office carried out its own review into GCSE English grades.
Former Northern Ireland international O'Neill played for several Scottish and English clubs before beginning his managerial career at Glebe Park in 2006.
After the Super 8, Ireland have just nine days off before their first match in English county cricket's one-day competition.
By setting a uniform target for the size of seats across Britain, the government's bill would also remove the current quirk that English constituencies tend to contain more voters than seats in Scotland, Northern Ireland and especially Wales (which could lose up to ten MPs).
Fellow Tory, Iain Stewart, warned that the Union was at risk because of growing English resentment towards MPs from devolved nations being able to vote on English matters, when English MPs cannot vote on the same issues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Pupils from England, Wales and Northern Ireland were offered the chance to redo part or all of their GCSE English after complaining they had been downgraded.
The study was of English schools because comparable data is not available from schools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland's veteran goalkeeper, Maik Taylor, has a German mother and English father, but - having been born on a British base in Germany - he was entitled to play for any of the UK nations.
The row over the English exams broke out as GCSE results were published for pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in August.
Compared with Northern Ireland's coppers, who struggle to overcome a reputation for Protestant partisanship, English and Welsh officers tend to be given the benefit of the doubt.
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"In effect it is an English parliament in the sense that they've got in England far more members of parliament than Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales put together, " he said.
Ireland is well-run, well-educated, rich, socially cohesive, well-located, English-speaking, and welcoming of outsiders.
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