Editing Northern Ireland (section)

====Nationalist====
* '''North of Ireland''' – used to avoid using the name given by the British-enacted Government of Ireland Act 1920.
* '''The Six Counties''' ({{lang|ga|na Sé Chontae}}) – the Republic of Ireland is similarly described as the Twenty-Six Counties.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sinnfein.ie/history |title=Sinn Féin usage of "Six Counties" |publisher=[[Sinn Féin]] |date=14 August 1969 |access-date=16 June 2010 |archive-date=14 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614042448/http://www.sinnfein.ie/history |url-status=live}}</ref> Some of the users of these terms contend that using the official name of the region would imply acceptance of the legitimacy of the Government of Ireland Act.
* '''The Occupied Six Counties''' – used by some republicans.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Io085Nl0CJQC&pg=PA166 |title=The Long War: The IRA and Sinn Féin |author=Brendan O'Brien |publisher=Syracuse University Press |page=167 |date=1999 |isbn=978-0-815-60597-3 |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806232810/https://books.google.com/books?id=Io085Nl0CJQC&pg=PA166 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Republic, whose legitimacy is similarly not recognised by republicans opposed to the Belfast Agreement, is described as the "Free State", referring to the [[Irish Free State]], which gained independence (as a [[Dominion]]) in 1922.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/FAQs.htm |title=FAQs – The Irish Freedom Committee™ |publisher=Irish Freedom Committee |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051222180049/http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/FAQs.htm |date=6 May 2007 |archive-date=22 December 2005 |access-date=16 June 2010}}</ref>
* '''British-Occupied Ireland''' – Similar in tone to the Occupied Six Counties,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PcdvAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 |title=Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy |author=Andrew Sanders |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |page=114 |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-748-68812-8 |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806214948/https://books.google.com/books?id=PcdvAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 |url-status=live}}</ref> this term is used by more dogmatic republicans, such as [[Republican Sinn Féin]],<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ukzbp2i3TvgC&pg=PA163 |title=Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary |author=Robert William White |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |page=163 |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-253-34708-4 |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806204507/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ukzbp2i3TvgC&pg=PA163 |url-status=live}}</ref> who still hold that the [[Second Dáil]] was the last legitimate government of Ireland and that all governments since have been foreign-imposed usurpations of Irish national self-determination.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekm2dmSDF_cC&pg=PA174 |title=Terrorism Studies: A Reader |author=John Horgan |publisher=Routledge |page=174 |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-415-45504-6 |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806225033/https://books.google.com/books?id=ekm2dmSDF_cC&pg=PA174 |url-status=live}}</ref>