"Our Wee Country" was created as a political entity in 1921. Once the bedrock of Irish resistance to the advance of the English state in Ireland, the Plantation of Ulster by Scottish and English colonists resulted in it following a different economic, religious and cultural trajectory to the rest of the island. Northern Ireland was formed from six of the nine counties of Ulster Londonderry,Antrim,Armagh,Tyrone,Down and Fermanagh together with Great Britain, forms the present United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This came about through the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 that also granted Home Rule to the rest of Ireland as Southern Ireland. In 1922, the rest of Ireland became independent and became known as the Irish Free State. Northern Ireland today remains a divided society with a legacy of civil conflict, at times made obvious through territorial markings such as painted kerbstones and the flying of the Irish or British national flags.