Some characteristics of the Ulster accent include:

Some definitions of Ulster Scots may also include Standard English spoken with an Ulster Scots accent.

* Listen to an Ulster Scots accent.

Keating brought a new trendy image to the programme, and was popular with viewers because of her looks, fashion-conscious image and Ulster accent.

He found various jobs as an actor in London, but, apparently, his thick Ulster accent was an obstacle to success and he could not find a steady theatre home until he was noticed in a small character role in Henry Fielding ’ s Coffee-House Politician at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1725.

Few of the main actors in the film actually manage an authentic Ulster accent.

Achill Irish still has many traces of Ulster Irish.

Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a " Roman anti-Christ.

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.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

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 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.

The RPG-7 has been used during The Troubles by both the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and other Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries.

Ireland has several main groups of accents, including ( 1 ) those of Dublin and surrounding areas on the east coast where English has been spoken since the earliest period of colonisation from Britain, ( 2 ) the accents of Ulster, with a strong influence from Scotland as well as the underlying Gaelic linguistic stratum which in that province approaches the Gaelic of Scotland, and ( 3 ) the various accents of west, midlands and south.

It bears many similarities to Scottish English through influence from Ulster Scots, which has many distinct characteristics and is often seen as a variety of Scots.

It has been proposed that some of the more obscure kings of Dál Riata mentioned in the Annals of Ulster, such as Fiannamail ua Dúnchado and Donncoirce may have been kings of Irish Dál Riata.

Donegal Irish has a strong influence on learnt Irish across Ulster.

The Tyrone GAA football side has had considerable success since 2000, winning three All Ireland titles ( in 2003, 2005 and 2008 ), they have also won thirteen Ulster titles ( 1956, 1957, 1973, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010 ) and two National League titles ( in 2002 and 2003 ).

Ulster County has Minnewaska State Park, Mohonk Preserve, Sundown State Park, VerNooykill State Forest, Witches Hole State Forest, and Shawangunk Ridge State Forest and Sam's Point Preserve, which includes rare dwarf pine trees and VerKeerderkill falls.

Boyle's theopolitical philosophy has been described as ' providentialist ' when contrasted with its counterpart which prevailed to the north in Ulster at the time, which, is more typically characterised as Presbyterian.

" For the past 30 years, the Royal Ulster Constabulary has been the bulwark against, and the main target of, a sustained and brutal terrorism campaign.

As Northern Ireland reaches a turning point in its political development this award is made to recognise the collective courage and dedication to duty of all of those who have served in the Royal Ulster Constabulary and who have accepted the danger and stress this has brought to them and to their families.

The report in the Annals of Ulster for 638, " the battle of Glenn Muiresan and the besieging of Eten " ( Din Eidyn, later Edinburgh ), has been taken to represent the capture of Din Eidyn by the Northumbrian king Oswald, son of Æthelfrith, but the Annals mention neither capture, nor Northumbrians, so that this is rather a tenuous identification.

Recently it has emerged from the Police Ombudsman that senior North Belfast UVF member and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Special Branch informant Mark Haddock has been involved in drug dealing.

Enniskillen and Derry were the two garrisons in Ulster that were not wholly loyal to James II, it was the last town to fall before the siege of Derry.

The passage of the Bill through Parliament over the next two years was accompanied in Ireland by the formation of first unionist, and then nationalist, mass-membership armed militias: the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Irish Volunteers, respectively.

* June 2007: the designated nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party complained about an artist's rendering of IKEA Belfast that included both the Union Flag and the Ulster Banner flag as two of the three flags in front of the store.

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.

While these six counties and two parliamentary boroughs were all in the province of Ulster, three other counties of the province-Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan were assigned to the Irish Free State.

The county is the most mountainous in Ulster consisting chiefly of two ranges of low mountains ; the Derryveagh Mountains in the north and the Bluestack Mountains in the south, with Mount Errigal at the highest peak.

The situation was altered in 1846 when the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846. divided the colony into two provinces: New Ulster Province ( the North Island ), and New Munster Province ( the South Island and Stewart Island ).

The Annals of Ulster in the early 8th century report two battles between Alt Clut and Dál Riata, at " Lorg Ecclet " ( unknown ) in 711, and at " the rock called Minuirc " in 717.

Henry Percy married Elizabeth Mortimer, the eldest daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, and his wife, Philippa, the only child of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of Ulster, and by her had two children:

The texts indicate that two were involved in an Ulster raid on the Fir Falgae, with Cú Roí participating again in disguise.

The Red Branch (; alternatively, ) is the name of two of the three royal houses of the king of Ulster, Conchobar mac Nessa, at his capital Emain Macha ( Navan Fort, near Armagh ), in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

In 1964, his demand that the Royal Ulster Constabulary remove an Irish tricolour from Sinn Féin's Belfast offices led to two days of rioting, after this was followed through ( see Flags and Emblems Act – the public display of any symbol, with the exception of the Union flag, that could cause a breach of the peace was illegal until Westminster repealed the Act in 1987 ).

The notoriety of the gang, which was part of a wider group in loyalist north and west Belfast known as the " NF Skinz " because of their support for the ideas of the National Front, gained widespread notoriety on 14 January 1981 when " Seig Heiling " members launched a brutal attack on anti-racist fans of The Specials and The Beat when the two bands played a concert at the Ulster Hall.

There are two schools, public Walden Elementary School on Orchard Street and Catholic Most Precious Blood near the northern village line along Ulster Avenue.

The path was a major Native American trail in that ran between two Native American villages: " French Margaret's Town " on the West Branch Susquehanna River ( part of modern day Williamsport in Lycoming County ) and " Sheshequin " on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River ( modern day Ulster Township, in Bradford County ).

On each occasion this was the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, such was the UUP's electoral dominance using both a simple plurality and for the first two elections, a proportional electoral system.

Existing sectarian animosity did threaten to undermine the United Irishmen movement: two secret societies in Ulster fought against each other, the Peep O ' Day Boys, who were made up mostly of Protestants, and the Defenders, who were made up of Catholics.

It used the name Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF ) when it wished to claim responsibility for attacks — because the two claimed to be separate organisations, the UDA was able to remain legal for over twenty years.

Although almost two – thirds of these weapons were later recovered by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), they enabled the UDA to launch an assassination campaign against their perceived enemies.

The bad blood originated from an incident in the Ulster Workers ' Council strike of May 1974 when the two groups were co-operating in support of the Ulster Workers ' Council.