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Partition 100 years on: Northern Ireland's path set by first election a century ago In the latest of his series of articles on the centenary of partition, historian Cormac Moore looks at the first election to the new Northern Ireland Parliament, which took place 100 years ago this week 26 May, 2021 01:00 The slogan 'vote early and vote often', recorded in this image from The Sphere, captured the atmosphere of the first election to the new Northern Ireland Parliament, held 100 years ago this week. Unionists won 40 of the 52 seats and nationalists - who ran on an abstent...

Apr. 27—NEWBURYPORT — The field for five at-large City Council seats has become far more crowded with former Councilor Ed Cameron and current Tree Commission Chairperson Connie Preston pulling nomination papers. Cameron, 59, had been on the council for 10 years before leaving office in 2017, while Preston has devoted her roughly six years in the city with the Tree Commission and also as a ...

 E-Mail A surgical procedure meant to counter ulcerative colitis, an immune disease affecting the colon, may trigger a second immune system attack, a new study shows. The study results revolve around the immune system, the cells and proteins that destroy invading bacteria and viruses. Activating it brings about inflammation, responses like swelling and pain that result from cells homing in on the site of infection or injury. Autoimmune diseases like ulcerative colitis occur when this system mistakenly damages the body's own tissues. Colon tissue damaged by the disease is routinely addresse...

Road to Partition: how the border was drawn up A very different border could have been chosen, but by the time the Better Government of Ireland act passed on 23 December 1920, the line between what would become Northern Ireland and the rest of the island had been drawn. • 21 Dec 2020 In early 1919 Lloyd George's coalition government was engaged in the realignment of European borders at the Paris Peace Conference but, by the Autumn of that year, attention was focused again on the Irish question. Conscious that the outdated 1914 Home Rule Act was on the Statute Book and would operate automati...