Explore: Irish Boundary Commission

The Irish Boundary Commission (Irish: Coimisiún na Teorann) met in 1924–25 to decide on the precise delineation of the border between the Irish Free State

of Commons. There are four boundary commissions: one each for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each commission comprises four members, three

of the remaining 26 (including three of Ulster). In 1925, the Irish Boundary Commission was established to consider whether a more appropriate border

Sinn Féin. MacNeill was the representative of the Irish Free State on the Irish Boundary Commission of 1924–1925 but was obliged to resign during a political

The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse), also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between

under the Irish Parliament". The pro-Treaty side argued that the proposed Irish Boundary Commission would give large swathes of Northern Ireland to the Free

Irish nationalists and republicans, who were mostly Irish Catholics, wanted Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and join a united Ireland. Despite

at a meeting of the Irish Boundary Commission in County Down, witnesses from Newry and Kilkeel support being included in the Irish Free State. 2 April

The Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, sometimes referred to as the Irish border or British–Irish border, runs for 499 km (310 mi) from Lough

"North Eastern Ireland showing complexion by Religions, Census 1911" Irish Boundary Commission and Hand 1969, p. 149 Irish Boundary Commission and Hand 1969