16 Facts About United Ireland

United Ireland, referred to as Irish reunification, is the proposition that all of Ireland should be a single sovereign state.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that in the event of reunification, Northern Ireland should be allowed to rejoin the EU, just as East Germany was permitted to join the EU's predecessor institutions by reuniting with the rest of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In demographic terms, the six counties of Northern United Ireland taken as a whole contain a plurality of Ulster Protestants who almost all favour continued union with Great Britain, although individually four of the six counties have Irish Catholic majorities and majorities voting for Irish nationalist parties.

The religious denominations of the citizens of Northern United Ireland are only a generalised guide to likely political preferences, as there are both Protestant nationalists and Catholic unionists.

Northern Ireland Act 1998, a statute of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, provides that Northern Ireland will remain within the United Kingdom unless a majority of the people of Northern Ireland vote to form part of a united Ireland.

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Opposition in United Ireland was concentrated in the heavily Protestant counties in Ulster.

Government of United Ireland Act 1914 provided for a unitary devolved Irish Parliament, a culmination of several decades of work from the Irish Parliamentary Party.

United Ireland said it was important that that choice be made as soon as possible after 6 December 1922 "in order that it may not go forth to the world that we had the slightest hesitation".

On 7 December 1922, the day after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the Houses of the Parliament of Northern United Ireland resolved to make the following address to the King so as to exercise the rights conferred on Northern United Ireland under Article 12 of the Treaty:.

New Constitution of United Ireland was proposed by Eamon de Valera in 1937 and approved by the voters of the Irish Free State.

In 1972, the parliament of Northern United Ireland was suspended, and under the Northern United Ireland Constitution Act 1973, it was formally abolished.

In 1985, the governments of Ireland and of the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement; the British government accepted an advisory role for the Irish government in the future of Northern Ireland.

In Northern United Ireland, it was supported by all parties who were in the Northern United Ireland Forum with the exception of the Democratic Unionist Party and the UK Unionist Party, and it was supported by all parties in the Oireachtas.

The Northern United Ireland Conservatives are a minor unionist party in Northern United Ireland.

Many Unionist Protestants in Northern Ireland argue they have a distinct identity that would be overwhelmed in a united Ireland.

Unionist people in Northern United Ireland primarily find their cultural and ethnic identity from the Scottish and English planters, whose descendants can be found in the three counties of Ulster which are governed by the Republic of United Ireland.