The name Ulster comes from the Irish Cúige Uladh () meaning " fifth of the Ulaidh ".

The Ulaid ( Old Irish, ) or Ulaidh ( modern Irish, ) were a people of early Ireland who gave their name to the modern province of Ulster ( modern Irish: Cúige Uladh,, meaning " fifth-part of the Ulaidh ").

The modern western province of Connacht ( Irish Cúige Chonnacht, province, literally " fifth ", of the Connachta ) takes its name from them, although the territories of the Connachta also included at various times parts of southern and western Ulster and northern Leinster.

From the seventh century the dominant power in Ulster were the Dál Fiatach so much so that the title " Rí Uladh " could simultaneously mean " King of Ulster " and " King of the Dál Fiatach ".

Ulster Bank ( Irish: Banc Uladh ) is a large commercial bank, and one of the traditional Big Four Irish banks.

He published articles in many magazines, including Uladh, the Westminster Review and the Ulster Review, and he reviewed books for the Manchester Guardian.

Another, Liam Kelly founded a breakaway group Saor Uladh (" Free Ulster ") and in November 1955, attacked a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks at Roslea in County Fermanagh.

This is the Anglo-Norse form of the province of Uladh ( pronounced " Ull-oo ") ( Irish Uladh and Old Norse ster, meaning " province ", yields " Uladh Ster " or, in English, " Ulster ").

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.

Many Scots emigrated to Ulster ( the Ulster-Scots ).

The campaign led to a bloody battle in which the Annals of Ulster report 3, 000 Scots and 1, 500 English dead, which can be taken as meaning very many on both sides, and one of Siward's sons and a son-in-law were among the dead.

The diplomacy worked to a certain extent, at least in Ulster, where the Scots had some support.

* Scots language, a language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster

* Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in the Ulster province of Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England.

* Scotch-Irish Americans, descendents of Ulster Scots who first migrated to North America in large numbers in the early 18th century.

The Ulster accent has two main sub accents, namely Mid Ulster English and Ulster Scots.

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.

The Annals of Ulster report only: " Dub mac Maíl Coluim, king of Alba, was killed by the Scots themselves "; the usual way of reporting a death in internal strife, and place the death in 967.

Ulster Scots is often spoken in both the Finn Valley and The Laggan district of East Donegal.

Category: Ulster Scots people

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster ( where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots ).

Scots in Ireland is known in official circles as Ulster-Scots ( Ulstèr-Scotch in revivalist Ulster-Scots ) or " Ullans ", a recent neologism merging Ulster and Lallans.

Similarly in Scotland and perhaps elsewhere in the United Kingdom, such as in Ulster Scots, a fish supper is a portion of fish and chips.

The University of Ulster ( previously shortened to UU ;, Ulster Scots: Universitie o Ulstèr or Varsitie o Ulster ) is a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Northern Ireland.

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.

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