History UsefulNotes / NorthernIreland

* ''Series/TheFall'', a PoliceProcedural starring Creator/GillianAnderson and N.I. native Creator/JamieDornan set in Belfast.

* [[Creator/JamieDornan Jamie Dornan]] of ''Series/TheFall'' and ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' fame.

* Blu Hydrangea, finalist from series one of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace UK'' and the winner of ''[=RuPaul=]'s Drag Race UK Versus the World''

In UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}, Stroke Country is generally referred to simply as "the North", except in official documents and the news (though sometimes they will use 'the North' too). This is probably not politically motivated as most people in Northern Ireland refer to the Republic as "Down South" or simply "the South". Old-fashioned Irish nationalists might refer to "the Occupied Six" etc. People who want to make a point of how ''un''nationalist they are will use "Northern Ireland", even in casual conversation. Meanwhile "the South" is ''never'' called "Southern Ireland" except by clueless people from England and people particularly ill-disposed towards Ireland.[[note]]Or on the rare occasion when one wants to refer to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ireland_(1921%E2%80%931922) the historical entity by that name]] established by the Government of Ireland Act 1920 - the same Act that formally established ''Northern'' Ireland - and existing, in largely-nonfunctional form, in 1921-22.[[/note]] Its official name "Republic of Ireland" is often abbreviated as "[=RoI=]" or "The Republic" and the shorthand "The South" is acceptable, if hardly ever used in the [=RoI=] itself. "Ireland" is a common shorthand for the [=RoI=] but confusingly it is also the correct term to refer to the entire ''island'' which includes both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

The region is also known as "Stroke Country", a reference to a local joke name for the city of Londonderry/Derry.[[note]]That thing between the words "Londonderry" and "Derry" is called a "stroke" in some versions of English. An American would call it a "slash", which could have some [[SlashFic pretty strange]] unintended implications. Then again, "stroke" isn't much better, since it brings to mind ADateWithRosiePalms. Or a medical stroke - although, given [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the region's, er, "troubled" history]], it no doubt proved stressful enough to result in a fair number of ''those''.[[/note]] The city is officially called Londonderry, but has a City Council that calls it "Derry". An attempt to compromise is "The Maiden City", since it wasn't breached in a 1689 siege. (As an aside, the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. TookAThirdOption and split its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry,_New_Hampshire Londonderry]], which was first settled by Ulster Scots, into two towns called Londonderry and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry,_New_Hampshire Derry]].)

* Drag queen Blu Hydrangea from series one of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace UK''

In UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}, Stroke Country is generally referred to simply as "the North", except in official documents and the news (though sometimes they will use 'the North' too). This is probably not politically motivated as most people in Northern Ireland refer to the Republic as "Down South" or simply "the South". Old-fashioned Irish nationalists might refer to "the Occupied Six" etc. People who want to make a point of how ''un''nationalist they are will use "Northern Ireland", even in casual conversation. Meanwhile "the South" is ''never'' called "Southern Ireland" except by clueless people from England and people particularly ill-disposed towards Ireland. Its official name "Republic of Ireland" is often abbreviated as "[=RoI=]" or "The Republic" and the shorthand "The South" is acceptable, if hardly ever used in the [=RoI=] itself. "Ireland" is a common shorthand for the [=RoI=] but confusingly it is also the correct term to refer to the entire ''island'' which includes both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

The region is also known as "Stroke Country", a reference to a local joke name for the city of Londonderry/Derry.[[note]]That thing between the words "Londonderry" and "Derry" is called a "stroke" in some versions of English. An American would call it a "slash", which could have some [[SlashFic pretty strange]] unintended implications. Then again, "stroke" isn't much better, since it brings to mind ADateWithRosiePalms. Or a medical stroke.[[/note]] The city is officially called Londonderry, but has a City Council that calls it "Derry". An attempt to compromise is "The Maiden City", since it wasn't breached in a 1689 siege. (As an aside, the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. TookAThirdOption and split its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry,_New_Hampshire Londonderry]], which was first settled by Ulster Scots, into two towns called Londonderry and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry,_New_Hampshire Derry]].)

The region is also known as "Stroke Country", a reference to a local joke name for the city of Londonderry/Derry. That thing between the words "Londonderry" and "Derry" is called a "stroke" in some versions of English. An American would call it a "slash", which could have some [[SlashFic pretty strange]] unintended implications. Then again, "stroke" isn't much better, since it brings to mind ADateWithRosiePalms. Or a medical stroke. The city is officially called Londonderry, but has a City Council that calls it "Derry". An attempt to compromise is "The Maiden City", since it wasn't breached in a 1689 siege. (As an aside, the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. TookAThirdOption and split its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry,_New_Hampshire Londonderry]], which was first settled by Ulster Scots, into two towns called Londonderry and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry,_New_Hampshire Derry]].)

-->-The '''''Ard Ruide''''', an Old Gaelic poem dating from the Middle Ages. Still true.

* ''Series/TheFall'', a PoliceProcedural starring Creator/GillianAnderson and N.I. native Creator/JamieDornan

* Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel was born in Belfast (though he grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}.)

The region is also known as "Stroke Country", a reference to a local joke name for the city of Londonderry/Derry. That thing between the words "Londonderry" and "Derry" is called a "stroke" in some versions of English. An American would call it a "slash", which could have some [[Main/{{SlashFic}} pretty strange]] unintended implications (William of Orange/James II FoeYay?). Then again, "stroke" isn't much better, since it brings to mind ADateWithRosiePalms. Or a medical stroke. The city is officially called Londonderry, but has a City Council that calls it "Derry". An attempt to compromise is "The Maiden City", since it wasn't breached in a 1689 siege. (As an aside, the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. TookAThirdOption and split its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry,_New_Hampshire Londonderry]], which was first settled by Ulster Scots, into two towns called Londonderry and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry,_New_Hampshire Derry]].)

The local flavour of Creator/{{ITV}}, UTV (or until 1993, Ulster Television - it changed its name mainly to get advertisers to sell to its thousands of viewers in the Republic), used to embody 'regional programming' (teatime "good news" programme before the proper news, replacing ''Tonight with Trevor Mc Donald'' with an actual current affairs programme, a Friday night live chat show that ran for 16 years), but, apart from continuity announcements to soap operas by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kqkavY6nFU this guy]] (who really is a trope unto himself), it's now a reskin of Creator/{{ITV}}1 with regional news. This is an [[http://www.elementalsoup.com/spidemanissue2.html improvement]].

The BBC's NI branch is mostly the same as in Britain, though it did give us ''[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/gmhp/ Give My Head Peace]]'', which helped launch the television careers of '[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_in_the_Wall_Gang_(comedy) The Hole in the Wall Gang]]'.