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The Partition of Ireland took place in May 1921, following the enactment of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended the Anglo-Irish War.

The partition created two territories on the island of Ireland — Northern Ireland (which remained part of the United Kingdom) and the Irish Free State (at that stage a Crown Dominion, later to become a republic).

The Government of Ireland Act had created two Home Rule parliaments: a Parliament of Northern Ireland which functioned and a Parliament of Southern Ireland which did not. The Anglo-Irish Treaty laid the basis of the Irish Free State, but allowed the Parliament of Northern Ireland to opt out, a power it used immediately. The treaty also provided for a boundary commission to adjust the border, however the two governments agreed the border along the original demarcation lines in 1925.

Later, the new Constitution of Ireland in 1937 and the declaration of the Republic of Ireland in 1949, when combined with the UK responses, tended to reinforce the feeling of partition. The impact was reduced when both countries joined the European Economic Community in 1973.

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