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 Northern Ireland
Unionists often call Northern Ireland "Ulster" or "the Province"; nationalists often use the terms the "North of Ireland" and the "Six Counties".
Ulster formed one of the historic province s of the island of Ireland and consisted of 9 counties.
Ulster Scots comprises varieties of the Scots language spoken in Northern Ireland.
www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Northern_Ireland.html   (1890 words)

  
 Ulster Volunteer Force - Belfast Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ulster Loyalist Front (ULF) The ULF was a political party founded in 1973 by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Loyalist paramilitary group that was formed in 1966.
The Ulster Volunteer Force believes that Wright, known as King Rat, a symbol of militant Loyalism, is a British intelligence agent.
www.cowboy-classics.com /ulster-volunteer-force.html   (289 words)

  
 Irish Democrat : Reviews : Ulster and Scotland
THIS BOOK will be of interest to people wishing to enhance their understanding of the Ulster Protestant cultural background, especially as regards the actual and perceived linkages with Scotland.
The New Zealand experience is interesting, in that unlike the Scottish, who tended to preserve their identity, the Ulster emigrants abandoned the Ulster identity and developed a British imperial one, but with a democratic, anti-aristocratic ethos, presaging an emergent New Zealand national flavour.
John R Young (University of Strathclyde) goes in some depth into the 17th century background and the perceived identity of the first wave of planters, who were mostly Scots-speaking radical Presbyterians, in dispute with the established Church, falling foul of Charles I and Wentworth in 1639 with the Covenanters, in opposition to the 'Black Oath'.
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /reviews/ulster-and-scotland   (1622 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kipling also wrote the poem "Ulster" in 1912(?) reflecting the anti-Home Rule stance of Irish Unionists.
Kipling was friends with Edward Carson, the Dublin-born leader of Ulster Unionism, who raised the Ulster Volunteers to oppose "Rome Rule" in Ireland.
The poem no doubt reflects on Ulster Day, 28th September, 1912 when half a million people signed the Ulster Covenant.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Rudyard_Kipling   (2446 words)

  
 Biography of Rudyard Kipling - Stalky & Co by Rudyard Kipling
He was friends with Edward Carson, the Dublin-born leader of Ulster Unionism, who raised the Ulster Volunteers to oppose "Rome Rule" in Ireland.
Kipling wrote the poem "Ulster" in 1912(?) reflecting this.
The poem reflects on Ulster Day, 28th September, 1912 when half a million people signed the Ulster Covenant.
www.stalky.com /rudyard_kipling.html   (2362 words)

  
 The Very Heart of English?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The term Ulster Unionist you can look up but not, perhaps significantly, its counterpart cause so prominent in Ireland and relevant to English culture: the Irish Nationalist.
Falls Road is listed as a Catholic area, but should not the political affiliation, that Falls Road is the heartland of Irish Nationalism in Northern Ireland, be also mentioned for the dictionary user to be able to make sense of that entry?
Ulster Unionism is defined in terms [-8-] of Northern Ireland but there is no corresponding entry for Nationalist or Irish Nationalist in the context of Northern Ireland with reference to the Catholic community.
www-writing.berkeley.edu /TESl-EJ/ej08/f1.html   (5591 words)

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