It depends if you mean 'Ireland' to mean the whole island - which it is in a purely geographical sense - or 'Ireland' to refer to the Republic of Ireland, which uses the former name (i.e. without the 'Republic') as its official name.
Legally, the city and county are called "Londonderry", while the local government district containing the city is called "Derry and Strabane" - Wikipedia
I got a couple more thanks to my son who did a study-abroad semester in Ireland, with classes in Dingle, Donegal, Dublin, and Derry. (The alliteration helped me remember them ten years later.)
Haha, found it! https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Narrabaun+South,+Kilmacow,+Co.+Kilkenny,+Ireland/@52.3130146,-7.1797255,16.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4842cf7dc0c17347:0xa00c7a997318920!8m2!3d52.3123573!4d-7.1769117
There are 9 counties in the province of Ulster. Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal are in the Republic of Ireland whilst the other 6 make up Northern Ireland.
I am Irish and I think alot of people would prefer Offaly and Laois as Kings County and Queens County were from the times the UK rule all of Ireland and keeping ties like that weren't really part of it
For those not in the know, these are new divisions to make Dublin easier to run. Could maybe sidestep this by renaming the quiz to traditional counties of Ireland?
county boundaries and administrative boundaries have varied long before the recent reorg of Dublin municipalities. many towns and cities have separate administrations from the county. Tipperary was split into South and North until 2014. Effectively two counties. They even had different car number plates.
It's not really. Ireland and NI have a much bigger overlap, for example all citizens of NI can get an Irish passport and have an automatic right to Irish citizenship. A large chunk of the population of NI consider themselves Irish in the sense of identifying with the state of Ireland.
American here. Can only reliably name 10-12 counties. I have always liked how the Irish put "County" before the name of the county rather than the other way around like we do in the US. It just seems classy somehow.
Tiocfaidh ar la
thanks, love the maps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Offaly
DR and Haiti in the same quiz
see Wikipedia
Source: I live there, but a quick google search should how how much more common the "acht" spelling is now