There have been attempts to find the cern root in the name of Conall Cernach, the foster brother of the Irish hero Cuchulainn in the Ulster Cycle.

Reference to Imbolc is made in Irish mythology, in the Tochmarc Emire of the Ulster Cycle.

Kenneth Jackson famously described the Ulster Cycle as a " window on the Iron Age ", and Garret Olmsted has attempted to draw parallels between Táin Bó Cuailnge, the Ulster Cycle epic, and the iconography of the Gundestrup Cauldron.

The centrepiece of the Ulster Cycle is the Táin Bó Cúailnge.

Other important Ulster Cycle tales include The Tragic Death of Aife's only Son, Bricriu's Feast, and The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel.

If the Mythological Cycle represents a Golden Age, the Ulster Cycle is Ireland's Heroic Age.

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

They also differ from the Ulster Cycle in that the stories are told mainly in verse and that in tone they are nearer to the tradition of romance than the tradition of epic.

* 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.

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The Ulster Cycle contains many references to Samhain.

Conchobar mac Nessa, an Irish king from the Ulster Cycle, who is wounded in a very similar manner by Cet mac Magach.

The Red Branch play an important role in the Ulster Cycle, as well as the Cattle Raid of Cooley.

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

Achall, daughter of Cairbre Nia Fer, king of Tara, and his wife Fedelm Noíchrothach, is a minor character from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

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In the Ulster Cycle tale, Serglige Con Culainn (" The Sickbed of Cúchulainn ") Manannán's wife, Fand, has an ill-fated affair with the Irish warrior Cúchulainn.

The Ulster Museum is also located in Belfast.

Lying within the historical province of Ulster, it is also one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland.

The leadership of the Continuity IRA is believed to be based in the Munster and Ulster areas.

The Chronicle states that the Northmen were killed in Srath Erenn, which is confirmed by the Annals of Ulster which records the death of Ímar grandson of Ímar and many others at the hands of the men of Fortriu in 904.

The entry in question is now read as "... Dynfwal ... and Domnall son Áed king of Ailech died ", this Domnall being a son of Áed Findliath who died on 915 .< ref > Domnall's death is recorded by the Annals of Ulster.

The resulting battle of Brunanburh — Dún Brunde — is reported in the Annals of Ulster as follows: a great battle, lamentable and terrible was cruelly fought ... in which fell uncounted thousands of the Northmen.

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

* 637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada.

* 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.

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.

* 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

Ulster ( or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island.

These counties are traditionally grouped into 4 provinces-Leinster ( 12 ), Munster ( 6 ) Connacht ( 5 ) and Ulster ( 9 ).

In Ulster Scots-speaking areas there was traditionally a considerable demand for the work of Scottish poets, often in locally printed editions.

The name " Connacht " is an apparent anachronism: the stories of the Ulster Cycle are traditionally set around the time of Christ, but the Connachta, after whom the province is named, were said to have been the descendants of Conn Cétchathach, who is supposed to have lived several centuries later.

Munster, Leinster and Ulster continue to be the strongest three with Connacht in the west of the island traditionally the weakest perhaps due to Connacht receiving only half the amount of money the other three provinces receive from the IRFU.

This stadium is regularly used for inter-county matches during the Ulster provincial championship in Gaelic football, and traditionally hosts the final.

The Ulster Unionist Party has traditionally been dominant though it has been supplanted by the Democratic Unionist Party in recent years.

The constituency is overwhelmingly unionist and has traditionally had one of the highest votes for the Ulster Unionist Party in all of Northern Ireland, due in part to the personal popularity of James Molyneaux.

It was traditionally part of an Ulster Fry but now more often served at lunch or dinner with mashed potato or champ, and mashed swede or turnip.

They are traditionally used as one of the distinguishing items of food in an Ulster Fry, where they are shallow-fried on both sides for a short time and served with Soda farls cooked in the same way.

Since 1924 the stadium has been the annual venue for the Ulster Schools Cup final which is traditionally contested on St Patrick's Day.

The stadium is traditionally the venue for the Ulster Towns Cup played on Easter Monday.