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NI 100: High stakes and violence marked NI's first poll


BBC News
By Luke Sproule
image captionThe Northern Whig made its feelings clear on polling day
When voters across Ireland went to the polls on 24 May 1921 to elect two new parliaments, the stakes were high and the atmosphere tense.
The War of Independence was still raging and just weeks earlier the Government of Ireland Act had come into effect, creating two new entities - Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland - both with their own parliaments.
In Northern Ireland the newspapers of the period reflected the tension.
The language of the unionist papers was of fighting for the religious and civil liberty of Ulster and saving the new country from IRA violence, while nationalists were urged to strike a blow against the partition of Ireland. ....

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