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Can someone confirm the date of the referendum, please ?
Quote "One letter to the editor of The Times from an English resident called for a referendum to be called in the rest of the UK where the question to be asked would be: "Do you think that Northern Ireland should be forced to withdraw from the United Kingdom?", the letter-writer feeling the answer would be yes.[5]"
If that rest-of-UK referendum had happened, the majority in NI would not have wanted to join the Republic. As the Republic and the UK had just joined the EEC, then presumably NI would have become the 10th member state? It seems very hypothetical, given that there was no political desire to hold such a rest-of-UK referendum.86.42.196.234 (talk) 09:54, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've renamed it as Northern Ireland border poll 1973 under WP:COMMON, which is the name it was called at the time and is most commonly described in Northern Ireland literature, e.g.
It was also officially the 'Border Poll', provided for as it was by the Northern Ireland (Border Poll) Act 1972.
Some other sources:
Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins, British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 232.
Michael Cunningham, British Government Policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000 (Manchester University Press, 2001), p. 13.
Vernon Bogdanor, The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 63-64.
Derek Birrell, Direct Rule and the Governance of Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2009), p. 7