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2 unusual facts about Ulster


Province of Armagh

Ulster -- secular province whose territory corresponds roughly to that of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical province

Scotch-Irish

The Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in Ulster, Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England


2010 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship

There was no entry from the Ulster Championship to the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship proper.

Adlai Stevenson I

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

Alexander Craighead

He was born in Donegal, Ulster, Ireland around on March 18, 1705, and came to North America with his father, the Reverend Thomas Craighead.

Ards RFC

The first team will play in Ulster Bank All Ireland Division 2B, formerly AIB All-Ireland League Division 3 in the 2012-13 season, in addition to the Ulster Senior League and the Ulster Senior Cup.

Baron Dunleath

The Mulholland family were involved in the cotton and linen industry in Ulster in the north of Ireland.

C. Douglas Deane

He also was a member of various Government committees and other organisations relating to the natural history of Ulster and wrote regular articles in the Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph and the Belfast News Letter (Deane, 1983).

Carl Frampton

In September 2010 he recorded an "electrifying" win over the Ukrainian Yuri Voronin in front of an Ulster Hall crowd which included Daniel Day-Lewis.

Catskill Mountain Railroad

On October 4, 2012, Ulster County Executive Michael P. Hein announced in his 2013 budget a plan to dismantle 32 miles of railroad in Ulster County to be replaced by a trail, leaving only the Phoenicia-Cold Brook segment, and ending Kingston operations.

Charlemont Bridge

It is a triple-arched stone bridge constructed in 1855 by William Dargan, who was also responsible for the Portadown to Dungannon section of the Ulster Railway.

David McClarty

He is one of a number of high profile Ulster Unionist moderates who have left the party along with Harry Hamilton and Paula Bradshaw, who both joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, and Trevor Ringland, who joined the NI Conservatives.

Dermot Heaney

Heaney attended St. Pius College in Magherafelt and won two Ulster & two All-Ireland U-16 Vocational Schools Championships.

Donard Hospital F.C.

Ulster Hospital, founded in 1974, was connected to the hospital of the same name in Dundonald, and joined the Amateur League in the year of its foundation.

Dudi Appleton

In 1999 they made The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), for which he would later win the HBO Comedy award in Colorado for best director, awarded to Appleton by Billy Crystal.

Edward Prentice Mawson

Large-scale town planning schemes include London County Council's St Helier Estate (1934), and for Ulster Garden Villages Limited in Northern Ireland, Merville Garden Village, Abbots Cross, Fernagh, Princes Park, Kings Park, Whitehead and Muckamore Garden Villages, all in County Antrim.

Eithne Coyle

Following the signing of the treaty she toured County Donegal, County Londonderry and County Tyrone and found that many of the local branches had lost much of their membership and was forced to reorganise the movement in Ulster as a more streamlined model.

Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981

Opposition to the Sunningdale Agreement led to an alliance of Unionist parties under the label of the United Ulster Unionist Coalition running agreed candidates in all constituencies, here putting forward the new leader of the Ulster Unionists, Harry West.

Henry Plumer McIlhenny

During his lifetime his collections of French masterpieces, 18th and 19th century silver, furniture and other decorative arts were housed in both his Rittenhouse Square townhouse and at Glenveagh Castle, his country house in County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in Ireland.

Irish Convention

The Long Committee decided by October 1919, that two Irish parliaments should be established, including a Council of Ireland, a mechanism for the "encouragement of Irish unity", optionally in a Federation or as a Dominion, beginning with the partition of the entire nine Ulster counties.

For Unionists the war confirmed all their pre-war suspicions that Irish Nationalists could no longer be trusted, contrasting the Easter Rising with their blood sacrifice during the Battle of the Somme, the conscription crisis providing a watershed for Ulster Unionists to withdraw securely into their northern citadel.

James McCusker

James Harold McCusker (1940–1990), Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician

Jane Flemming

At the Ulster Games in Belfast on 30 June 1986 Flemming, on request of Australian team manager Maurie Plant, infamously provided a urine sample to allow another athlete, Sue Howland, to use Flemming's urine pass a drug test.

Kircubbin, County Down

John de Courcy, a Norman knight who invaded Ulster, brought Benedictines from Stoke Courcy in Somerset and Lonlay in France, for whom he founded Black Abbey (St Andrews in Ards), near Inishargy in the 1180s.

Liam Coyle

After 3 goals in 9 total appearances he moved to his home town club making his Derry debut alongside Tim Dalton, Kevin Brady, Paul Doolin and Noel Larkin at Finn Park in an Ulster Tyre Cup game on 24 July 1988.

Mac Con Midhe

There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the river Foyle in the deanery of Derry, and they are recorded as such as late as 1606 when Bishop Montgomery's survey of the diocese was made.

Mac Maoláin

Mac Maoláin was a surname borne by a number of unrelated families in Gaelic Ireland, found in Breifne, Mide, Brega, Connacht and Ulster.

Mark Anscombe

His first competitive game as Ulster coach was on 31 August 2012, a 18-10 win against Glasgow Warriors in the 2012–13 Pro 12 at Ravenhill.

Medallion Shield

In 1977 the organising committee of Belfast Royal Academy, Methodist College Belfast, Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Royal School Dungannon ceded control of the competition to the Ulster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union.

Mikael Heggelund Foslie

This collection was donated to the Ulster Museum by The Queen's University of Belfast in 1968.

Newtownards

The centre commemorates the involvement of the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) divisions in the Battle of the Somme, the 10th (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine and provides displays and information on the entire Irish contribution to the First World War.

Peadar Ó Doirnín

Ó Doirnín's work is still alive in the tradition of north Leinster and south Ulster, while his authorship of nationally and internationally celebrated songs like Mná na hÉireann is little known.

Pettigo railway station

The station's main purpose was to offer easy access for the considerable pilgrim traffic to St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg.

Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran

Dixon retained his sporting links throughout his life: he was President of the Jury at the 1976 Winter Olympics, set up the Ulster Games Foundation in 1983, and was appointed Chairman of the Northern Ireland Tall Ships Council in 1987.

Robin Jackson

According to journalist and author Ed Moloney the UVF campaign in Mid Ulster "indisputably shattered Republican morale".

Rose Neill

She moved to BBC Northern Ireland in 1984 to present the main early evening news programme with Sean Rafferty Inside Ulster, and went on to present its replacement BBC Newsline and various other news bulletins.

Scotshouse

Not many Currin players have won Ulster Medals but the first to win an Ulster Medal was the legendary Packie Smith of Cavany in 1914.

Scottish language

Scots language (Scots Leid), a Germanic language spoken in Lowland Scotland and Ulster

Siege of Waterford

However, Waterford still had access to reinforcements from the west and up to 3000 Irish soldiers (from the Confederate's Ulster Army) under Richard Farrell were fed into the city in the course of a week.

St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton

1910 he was regarded as the nominal leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance (the umbrella body for Southern Irish Unionists, corresponding to the Ulster Unionists' Ulster Unionist Council).

Ulster Grand Prix

Thomas Moles, motorcycle enthusiast and Member of Parliament, helped to push through parliament the first Road Races Act, which made it legal for the Clady Course to be closed for the first Ulster Grand Prix on 14 October 1922.

Ulster Political Research Group

After a few months McMichael wrote about the progress of the group in the UDA's Ulster magazine and stated that they had examined the case for direct rule from Westminster and found it to be wholly unsatisfactory.

Ulster Volunteers

After World War I, the British Government agreed to set up two self-governing regions in Ireland: Northern Ireland (made up of six Ulster counties with Protestant/unionist majorities), and Southern Ireland.

UVF

The Ulster Volunteers started in 1912 and organised as the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1913

Van Wagenen

Jacobus Van Wagenen Stone House, historic house in Ulster County, New York, United States

Walden United Methodist Church

Later they used a schoolhouse on what is today Ulster Avenue (NY 208).

Wilfrid Spender

He served with the Ulster division until 1916, and was present at the Battle of the Somme, when he won the Military Cross for his part in the assault on Thiepval.

William Henry Harvey

Ronald Campbell Gunn (1808–1881) Harvey specimens in the Ulster Museum are from George Town.


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