breaking the Good Friday Agreement. Three significant events occurred in December 2019, February 2020 and May 2022, respectively. First, the UK general election saw more nationalist MPs elected in Northern Ireland than unionist ones for the first time ever (nine nationalists and eight unionists). Two months later, Sinn Féin won the most votes in the 2020 Irish general election, thus ending 100 years of dominance in the Republic by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, but still finished one seat behind the latter in the Daíl. Finally, at the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, Sinn Féin won the highest number of seats, the first time a nationalist party had done so in Northern Ireland's 101-year history. This will result in the Assembly's first nationalist First Minister. References Citations Sources Further reading Brundage, David. Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798–1998 (Oxford University Press, 2016). x, 288 Boyce, D. George. Nationalism in Ireland, 1982 Campbell, F. Land and Revolution, 2005 Cronin, Sean. Irish Nationalism: Its Roots and Ideology, 1980 Edwards, Ruth Dudley, Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure, 1977 Elliot, Marianne, Wolfe Tone, 1989 English, Richard. Irish Freedom, 2008 Garvin, Tom. The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics, 1981; Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858-1928, 1987 Kee, Robert. The Green Flag, 1976 MacDonagh, Oliver. States of Mind, 1983 McBride, Lawrence. Images, Icons, and the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1999 McBride, Lawrence. Reading Irish Histories, 2003 Maume, Patrick. The Long Gestation, 1999 Nelson, Bruce. Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012 Strauss, E. Irish Nationalism and British Democracy, 1951 O'Farrell, Patrick. Ireland's English Question, 1971 Phoenix, Éamon. Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland, 1890-1940 Ward, Margaret. Unimaginable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1983 (attrib.) Zách, L. (2020). 'The first of the small nations': The significance of central European small states in Irish nationalist political rhetoric, 1918–22. Irish Historical Studies, 44(165), 25–40. External links Irish Nationalism (Archived 2009-10-31) – ninemsn Encarta (short introduction) History of Ireland (1801–1923) Politics of Ireland Independence movements Celtic nationalism Political movements in Ireland