At the end of 1584, the new lord deputy, Sir John Perrot, sent Stanley north in the company of Sir Henry Bagenal to act against the Ulster chieftains and the Scots led by Sorley Boy MacDonnell.

Poynings's first measure was an expedition into Ulster, in conjunction with Kildare, to punish O ' Donnell, O ' Hanlon, Magennis, and other chieftains who had abetted Warbeck's first invasion of Ireland.

The Irish chieftains were ultimately defeated, leading to their exile ( the ' Flight of the Earls ') and the aforementioned Plantation of Ulster in 1609.

O ’ Neill returned to his native Ulster, and then decided to go to Spain, and was accompanied by many supporters and other chieftains.

This attack came about shortly after the Flight of the Earls when the O ' Neill and O ' Donnell chieftains, together with their principal supporters, fled to the continent, leaving Gaelic Ulster leaderless.

It was faced with the prospect of battling Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots peoples in Ireland, who alongside their other Irish groups had raised their own volunteer army and threatened to emulate the American colonists if their conditions were not met.

In the three decades following 1969, the Army was heavily deployed in Northern Ireland, to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( later the Police Service of Northern Ireland ) in their conflict with republican paramilitary groups, called Operation Banner.

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The dominance of Fortriu came to an end in 839 with a defeat by Viking armies reported by the Annals of Ulster in which King Uen of Fortriu and his brother Bran, Constantín's nephews, together with the king of Dál Riata, Áed mac Boanta, " and others almost innumerable " were killed.

The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).

Many lines in the west were decommissioned in the 1930s under Éamon de Valera, with a further large cull in services by both CIÉ and the Ulster Transport Authority ( UTA ) during the 1960s, leaving few working lines in the northern third of the island.

By the reign of King James I & VI, the process was completed with the plantation of the last remaining princely domains in the province of Ulster.

It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.

Like the Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle is concerned with the deeds of Irish heroes.

* In the Ulster Cycle he fathered Cúchulainn with the mortal maiden Deichtine.

The Morrígan's earliest narrative appearances, in which she is depicted as an individual, are in stories of the Ulster Cycle, where she has an ambiguous relationship with the hero Cú Chulainn.

Orange is sometimes a color of nationalism, such as in the Netherlands, in Israel with the Orange Camp or with Ulster Loyalists in Northern Ireland ; it is also a color of reform such as in Ukraine.

At the funeral for a child murdered by the Real IRA in Omagh she symbolically walked up the main aisle of the church hand-in-hand with the Ulster Unionist Party leader and then First Minister of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, MP.

The first was his marriage alliance from 1302 with the de Burgh family of the Earldom of Ulster in Ireland ; second, Bruce himself on his mother's side of Carrick, was descended from Gaelic royalty in Scotland as well as Ireland.

Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

The term was initially applied in Ireland to the isolated bands of guerrillas resisting Oliver Cromwell's nine-month 1649 – 1650 campaign in Ireland, who were allied with Royalists through treaty with the Parliament of Confederate Ireland, signed at Kilkenny in January 1649 ; and later to dispossessed Catholics in Ulster following the Restoration.

During these two years the threat of religious civil war hung over Ireland with the creation of the Unionist Ulster Volunteers opposed to the Act and their nationalist counterparts, the Irish Volunteers supporting the Act.

In 2008, the Conservative Party formed a pact with the Ulster Unionist Party to select joint candidates for European and House of Commons elections ; this angered the DUP as by splitting the Unionist vote, republican parties will be elected in some areas.

** Milltown Cemetery Attack: During the funeral of three Provisional IRA members in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member Michael Stone attacked the crowd with grenades and pistols, killing three and wounding over sixty.

* April 17 – The Stevens Report concludes that members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and British Army cooperated with the Ulster Defence Association in the killings of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

When in February 1649 Scotland proclaimed Charles, Prince of Wales, to be Charles II, King of Scotland, the Protestant Ulster Scots settlers did the same and following Charles's lead ( one of cynical expediency had they but realised ), took the Solemn League and Covenant.

In 1914, Wilson surreptitiously supported British Army officers who threatened to resign rather than lead troops against Ulster Unionist opponents of the Third Irish Home Rule Bill in the so-called Curragh Mutiny, although some blamed him for inciting the Incident and then failing to support the " mutineers ".

It would be the third Home Rule Bill, introduced in 1912, which would lead to the crisis in Ireland between the majority Nationalist population and the Unionists in Ulster.

They refrained however from any action until the precedent of Ulster should have first been established while waiting for the lead to come from a " constitutional " quarter.

The article " threw down the gauntlet to nationalists to follow the lead given by Ulster unionists.

In 1644 Tuchet, the Earl of Castlehaven was chosen to lead a major Confederate expedition into Ulster.

Though he was an officer of the Irish Volunteers, in charge of 200 men in Belfast, it was decided that Belfast could not take part in the rising, as the dominance of the Ulster Volunteers in the northeast could lead to sectarian civil war.

The team began the 2007 / 2008 season well with a young side beating an Ospreys side including All Blacks leg-end Justin Marshall 17 – 16 however following their opening day win the team went on a terrible run of form losing their next 3 games before David Humphreys inspired the team to a comeback draw against a star studded Leinster side at Ravenhill, suggesting that the return of their World Cup stars could lead Ulster back up the table.

A Peter Quinn goal gave the Ulster men a six-point lead in the second-half, however, the game was far from over.

A Peter Quinn goal gave the Ulster men a six-point lead in the second-half, however, the game was far from over.

The Ulster champs took an early lead, courtesy of two first-half goals.

A Peter Quinn goal gave the Ulster men a six-point lead in the second-half, however, the game was far from over.

Following the collapse of the UDP and the resulting decision of the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) to reconvene the UPRG McCoubrey was chosen along with Sammy Duddy, Frankie Gallagher and Tommy Kirkham to lead the new group.

A Peter Quinn goal gave the Ulster men a six-point lead in the second-half, however, the game was far from over.

Alongside this the League also followed Mosley's lead in endorsing Irish republicanism, something of a change from their contemporaries in the British far right who reserved their support for Ulster loyalism.

Sometime between 1203 and 1205, De Courcy was expelled from Ulster by Hugh de Lacy, as authorised by King John.

On 29 June 1210 King John of England, Lord of Ireland and his forces met with Cathal Crobhderg, King of Connacht and his men in Ardbraccan before proceeding north to attack the forces of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster.

O ' Neill's Ulster army was unable to prevent the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, despite a successful defence of Clonmel by Eoghan Ruadh's nephew Hugh Dubh O ' Neill and was destroyed at the Battle of Scarrifholis in Donegal in 1650.

Ballagh's paintings are held in several public collections of Irish painting including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Hugh Lane Gallery, the Ulster Museum, Trinity College Dublin, and Nuremberg's Albrecht Dürer House.

Works are in many major collections, including the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; Bank of Ireland ; Allied Irish Banks ; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin ; Ulster Museum, Belfast ; Waterford Museum ; Office of Public Works, Dublin ; First National Bank of Chicago ; First National City Bank of New York ; An Chomhairle Ealaíon / The Irish Arts Council ; KLM Airlines Headquarters, New York ; Irish Management Institute, Dublin ; Jefferson Smurfit Group Ltd .; Norman B. Arnoff, New York ; University College, Dublin, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

* Hugh O ' Neill ( politician ) ( 1883 – 1982 ), Ulster Unionist politician who served as Father of the House of Commons

In 1600 Mountjoy went to Ireland as Lord Deputy in succession to Essex and, with the able assistance of Sir George Carew, brought the Nine Years War to an end with ruthless scorched-earth tactics in the stronghold of the rebel Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone in Ulster.

The crown therefore supported Hugh O ' Neill as the rightful claimant and as an ally in Gaelic controlled Ulster.

Hugh was subsequently inaugurated as The O ' Neill at Tullahogue in the style of the former Gaelic kings, and became the most powerful lord in Ulster.

In 1562, the title passed to Matthew's youngest son Hugh O ' Neill who had been taken to safety in the Pale by Sir Henry Sidney in 1559, stayed at the English court and was protected there while Shane established his supremacy in Ulster.

Although he initially hoped for an alliance with the English to secure his claims on land possessed by the O ' Donnell and Sorley Boy MacDonnell families against the encroachment of the O ' Neill, English unwillingness to work with him ultimately led him to orchestrate a marriage alliance among the three feuding clans of Ulster, which would ultimately have major effects on Irish history with the eruption of the Hugh O ' Neill rebellion in the 1590s.

* Hugh McCloy Independent ' Save the Mid ' Candidate for Mid Ulster during the 2011 Assembly Election

Other than Hugh O ' Doherty, Mayor of Londonderry until 1923, all the ex officio members were Ulster Unionists.

The haunting Mingulay Boat Song was composed by Hugh S. Roberton, the founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, in 1938, and first recorded by the Francis McPeake family of Ulster.

Three students have achieved Ulster All Stars while playing for the college, Mark McGowan, Hugh Brendan Kerr and Sean McEwen.

Don Jorge O ' Neill of Clanaboy and Lisbon submitted his pedigree to the Ulster office of Heralds ; in 1896, he received a letter from Sir Henry Farnham Burke, Somerset Herald, acknowledging that he had proved his descent from the royal descent from the Kings of Ireland, and his collateral descent from Hugh O ' Neill.

* Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster ( 1176 – 1243 )

Born the son of Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery, a landowner and Ulster Unionist politician, and Mary Sophia Juliana May Montgomery ( née Maude ) and educated at Charterhouse School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Archibald Armar Montgomery was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Field artillery on 4 November 1891.

The cache had been purchased by Major Frederick Hugh Crawford for the Ulster Unionist Council to equip the Ulster Volunteer Force in Ireland.

In the election, Gibson was supported by Glen Barr of Vanguard, Charles Harding Smith, the leader of the West Belfast Ulster Defence Association and the independent Shankill councillor Hugh Smyth, who went on to become one of the founders of the Progressive Unionist Party.

The Earl of Tyrone Hugh O ' Neill, the Earl of Tyrconnell Rory O ' Donnell and the Lord of Beare and Bantry, Donal O ' Sullivan, along with many chiefs, Gallowglass, and their followers from Ulster, fled Ireland.

At the 2011 election the five councillors elected were William Humphrey, Naomi Thompson and Brian Kingston of the Democratic Unionist Party, the independent Frank McCoubrey ( who is a member of the Ulster Political Research Group and the Progressive Unionist Party's Hugh Smyth.

Carrickfergus was built by John de Courcy in 1177 as his headquarters, after he conquered eastern Ulster in 1177 and ruled as a petty king until 1204, when he was ousted by another Norman adventurer, Hugh de Lacy.