| 单词 | six counties |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSix Counties Six Counties n. the Ulster counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, which have since 1920 comprised the province of Northern Ireland; (cf. Twenty-six Counties n. at twenty adj. and n. Compounds 4). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun] > Ulster Six Counties1921 province1972 1921 Notes from Ireland 40/1 The Unionists of the ‘Six Counties’. 1922 C. J. C. Street Ireland in 1921 ix. 226 The House of Commons contained only Unionist members, who were obviously deeply concerned at the position of affairs while anxious to say nothing which might compromise the position of the Six Counties. 1935 Frontier Sentinel (Newry) 22 June 4/4 The Six-County Premier. 1949 Hansard Commons 16 May 50/2 The conditions that exist in the North of Ireland, in those Six Counties which have been cut away and ‘Englishised’. 1960 J. Stroud Shorn Lamb iv. 49 Suppose..she turns out to be some one-eyed horror in the Six Counties looney-bin. 1974 Irish Democrat Nov. 5/2 The significance of the six county election results has been widely debated. < as lemmas |
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