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The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | © The Oxford Companion to Irish History 2007, originally published by Oxford University Press 2007. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Stormont, the site of the parliament of Northern Ireland, on the eastern outskirts of Belfast, frequently used as shorthand for the parliament itself. The neoclassical parliament building, located at the end of a straight, mile‐long drive with a statue of Sir Edward Carson dominating the final approach, was designed by Sir Arnold Thornely. Its opening (16 Nov. 1932), presided over by a noticeably unenthusiastic prince of Wales, was the occasion for a display of unionist pageantry, consciously recalling the triumphant mobilization of Protestant Ulster against the third home rule bill in 1912–14.

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