Ireland and Northern Ireland Compared

Mr. Beat compares and contrasts the two countries on the island of Ireland. #ireland #northernireland #geography

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Ireland and Northern Ireland

Two bordering countries on the North Atlantic island of Ireland. Well, Northern Ireland is kind of a country. It’s also often called a province, or just a region. Regardless, IT is part of the United Kingdom. Ireland is not. Ireland, aka the Republic of Ireland, has officially been around since 1937 and has been at least a somewhat independent country since December 6, 1921 and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended the Irish War of Independence.

The capital cities and biggest cities in both, Dublin and Belfast, are along the east coast of the island, and just a two hour trip apart by car. But Dublin is more than twice as big as Belfast. (D-1.3 million, B- 700,000) And the Republic of Ireland as a whole has 2 and a half times more people than Northern Ireland. In terms of land area, Ireland is about five times bigger. Northern Ireland has less than 3% of the United Kingdom’s population.

Around 1/3 of Ireland residents live in or near Dublin, and just over 1/3 of Northern Ireland residents live in or near Belfast . Both are more rural than most of the rest of Europe.

Both have little islands around them. Aw, how cute.

Both are green. Very green. Due to the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, both get A LOT OF FREAKING RAIN. Well, mostly in the western portions. It’s also cloudiest out west. Ireland does get more precipitation overall.

[iammrbeat]

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[colmmahon]

The civil war wasn't between nationalists and unionists. It was between factions of the nationalist movement that were pro and anti treaty.

[thedarksword]

also in Ireland accents change every 30 miles

[donalobrien]

Fun fact, Irish spring soap is neither made or sold or even known in Ireland.

[gloin]

Actually, forest cover in the Republic of Ireland(RoI) is close to 11%. The 1% figure may refer to native woodland species.

[fx]

You mistated the parties of the Irish Civil War as "those who wanted to stay with Britain and ...". In fact none of the parties of the civil war wanted to stay with Britain . The Free Staters thought it was the best deal they could get from Britain. They did not, however, want to stay with the UK.

I am not Irish, but I know a lot of Irish history. Therefore my opinion is unbiased on this issue.

[JfkJames]

The pro treaty vs anti treaty civil war wasn’t against those who wanted to leave Britain and those who wanted to stay with it. Your misinterpreting. It was those who were for the treaty and those against the treaty within the Irish free state.

[elliot]

2:19 - “Northern Ireland is more... north” - You’d be surprised but just west of NI is a small part of Republic of I. that stretches out further north.

[bubba]

"Kind of a country?"
No it's definitely a country. A country that is recognized by the Republic of Ireland and the UK.

[Artur_M.]

Oh, that's an interesting topic.
And totally not controversial at all. 😁

[DTL]

The Republic of Ireland is ACTUALLY further north!

[SomeIrishLad]

Where did you get the 1% figure for forest cover? That's way off. It's more like 11%, still very low but a lot higher than 1%.

[FinnD]

Are we all forgetting that the pail around Dublin was the most british area in Ireland for centurys and that Ulster was always the most Irish Provence and were able to withstand the British for a long time until the flight of the Earl's. The o neills came from Monaghan and the o Donnell's from Donegal which is why they are still very Irish today.

[tm_mcc]

The potato famine was really the britsh holocaust. Food was taken from Ireland and shipped to britain, while Irish people starved to death. Soup houses that were set up by protestant churches required Irish people to convert to protestantism. Many refused, preferring starvation.

[maryoshea]

The amount that is wrong in this acc hurts like

[barbalaza]

I don't even know where to begin with this, let's just call it a load of horseshit and leave it at that.

[paulaherne]

There's only one Ireland. Just because one part of it is occupied by a foreign country does not mean it is two countries.

[joanignasi]

The comment section is going to be lovely in this one...

[matthewsurgenor]

Fact: Most of game of thrones was recorded in Northern Ireland

[aaronhughes]

My advice is to maybe not cover such sensitive content with no real understanding on anything about it and to perhaps not display the whole island inaccurately and as one big joke