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

Two attempts were made by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith during World War I to implement the Third Home Rule Act, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.

That this would have pre-empted the need for Edward Carson, the Ulster leader, backed by the Ulster Covenant and his armed Ulster Volunteers, to force through his amending " exclusion of Ulster Bill " to the 1914 Third Home Rule Act.

Additionally, east to west running streets had names such as Fifth South Street ( Tompkins Street ), Fourth South Street ( Ulster Street ) and Third South Street ( Schuyler Street ).

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 ".

In 1912, following the entry of the Third Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons, unionists organised mass resistance to its implementation, organising around the " Ulster Covenant ".

During the 1913 – 14 parliamentary debates on the Third Home Rule Bill, O ' Brien, alarmed by Unionist resistance to the bill, opposed the IPP's coercive " Ulster must follow " policy, and published in January 1914 specific concession which would enable Ulster join a Dublin parliament " any price for an United Ireland, but never partition ".

In 1913 they organised themselves into the Ulster Volunteer Force to give armed resistance to the prospective Third Home Rule Act ( enacted in 1914 ).

Two attempts were made by the H. H. Asquith to implement the Third Home Rule Act during the war, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.

Kerr has stood for election as an Ulster Third Way candidate in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the group advocates the independence of Ulster from both Britain and the Republic of Ireland and the creation of a non-sectarian state.

Kerr is also the main force behind the Ulster Third Way, which acts as the Northern Ireland arm of the party whilst placing the main emphasis on the independence aspect.

The Ulster Covenant was signed by just under half a million men and women from Ulster, on and before 28 September 1912, in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill, introduced by the British Government in that same year.

From 2007 on, Ógra Fianna Fáil has been actively recruiting members throughout the region, as well as at Third Level in Queens University, Belfast and in the University Of Ulster.

Among the party's candidates was David Kerr, a former member of the National Front, a member of Ulster Third Way, and editor of Ulster Nation, and Lynda Gilby, a Belfast journalist.

This was an attempt to co-ordinate the paramilitary activities of Ulster ’ s unionists, as well as to give real military backing to the threats of the Ulster Covenant in resisting the implementation of the Third Home Rule Bill introduced on 11 April 1912 by then Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.

It is linked to Helen's Tower on the Clandeboye Estate via the Ulster Way.

The impetus for the development of the National Waymarked Trails came about in response to the establishment of the Ulster Way in Northern Ireland.

* The North Antrim Coast Path which forms part of the Ulster Way starts at Portstewart Strand and continues for 40 miles along the coast to Murlough Bay.

The Government's decision to develop a series of walking routes was prompted in response to the development of the Ulster Way in Northern Ireland.

This image, copied from the symbol used for waymarking the Ulster Way, has become the traditional waymarking symbol for all of the National Waymarked Trails in Ireland.

* Matthew Hoper and Simon Harris, The first people to complete the Ulster Way.

** Ulster Third Way, a Northern Ireland branch of the UK party

Independence has been supported by groups such as Ulster Third Way and some factions of the Ulster Defence Association.

With the UIM now defunct, Ulster nationalism is represented by the Ulster Third Way, which is involved in the publication of the Ulster Nation, a journal of radical Ulster nationalism.

Ulster Third Way, which registered as a political party in February 2001, is the Northern Ireland branch of the UK-wide Third Way, albeit with much stronger emphasis on the Northern Ireland question.

Ulster Third Way contested the West Belfast parliamentary seat in the 2001 general election, although candidate and party leader David Kerr failed to attract much support.

The Ulster Way passes through the forest along the source of the River Roe.

He presented a six-part comedy series for BBC Radio Ulster, The Way We Tell ' Em, as well as appearing on Ready Steady Cook on 5 June 2008.

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.

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

The Ulster Cycle is traditionally set around the time of Christ, and most of the action takes place in the provinces of Ulster and Connacht.

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

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.

* 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.

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.

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