Ulster Bank on George's Quay Plaza.

One such robbery at the Ulster Bank in Strabane's Abercorn Square netted £ 500, 000 for the organisation.

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.

There are many high street finance branches for AIB, Bank of Ireland, EBS, National Irish Bank, Ulster Bank and the Blackrock Credit Union.

*~ 2: 50 pm ( Ulster Bank, Limestone Road )

A car bomb ( estimated at 50 pounds ( 23 kg ) of explosive ) exploded outside the Ulster Bank on Limestone Road.

Ulster Bank £ 20

Desmond sold the company to Ulster Bank in 1994, which at the time was part of the National Westminster Group, for a reported £ 39 Million.

According to the University of Ulster Quarterly House Price Index report produced in partnership with Bank of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in Q4 2010, the North Coast region ( Coleraine / Limavady area ) had higher property prices than those of affluent south Belfast.

Bank of Ireland is a major sponsor of rugby union in Ireland, being the shirt sponsor of three of the four Irish provincial teams ( Connacht Rugby, Leinster Rugby and Ulster Rugby ).

An independent review was led by Sir George Quigley, the Chairman of Ulster Bank, looked into the issue and reported on 29 March 2000.

The town also has branches of all the major banks-AIB, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank, National Irish Bank, Permanent TSB-and branches of First Active and EBS building societies.

* The Ulster Bank.

Ulster Bank Headquarters, Dublin

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

The Ulster Bank Group is subdivided into two separate legal entities, Ulster Bank Limited ( UBL – registered in Northern Ireland ) and Ulster Bank Ireland Limited ( UBIL – registered in the Republic of Ireland ).

In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was much migration to Achill from other parts of Ireland, particularly Ulster, due to the political and religious turmoil of the time.

However, in 1116 the Annals of Ulster report: " Ladhmann son of Domnall, grandson of the king of Scotland, was killed by the men of Moray.

The Annals of Ulster say that in 878: " Áed mac Cináeda, king of the Picts, was killed by his associates.

In Northern Ireland it was a poor night for the Ulster Unionists, and despite gaining North Down they lost 5 seats behind them.

In their resistance to Home Rule the Ulster Protestants had the full support of the Conservatives, whose leader, Andrew Bonar Law, was of Ulster-Scots descent.

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.

The locally recruited Ulster Defence Regiment was formed, later becoming home service battalions in the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992, before being disbanded in 2006.

When it was deployed on duty in Northern Ireland, the British Army was welcomed by Roman Catholics as a neutral force there to protect them from Protestant mobs, the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) and the B-Specials.

Fermanagh was made into a county by statute of Elizabeth I, but it was not until the time of the Plantation of Ulster that it was finally brought under civil government.

A battle, fought near Dollar, was a heavy defeat for the Picts ; the Annals of Ulster say that " a great slaughter of the Picts resulted ".

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.

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.

This was part of a wider campaign to bring the province of Ulster under English control ; there had been a major siege of Enniskillen Castle in 1594.

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.

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.

Many of the counties of Ulster roughly correspond to the territories controlled by the principal clan in that particular area such as the O Donnells of Tír Conaill whose political power was concentrated in what would become the County of Donegal.

The County of Roscommon was separated from Connacht before 1292, and the first session of the Irish parliament in 1297 created the new shires of County Kildare, Meath and Ulster.

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.

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

The capacity of the proposed Stadium was later adjusted to first 35, 000 and then 38, 000 and the organising bodies of all three sports-Irish FA, Ulster Rugby and Ulster GAA-agreed in principle to support the integrated scheme.

He refused to join the Orange Institution, the first Ulster Unionist MP at Westminster never to be a member ( and, to date, only one of three, the others being Ken Maginnis and Sylvia Hermon ), and he was an outspoken opponent of the more extremist Unionism espoused by the Reverend Ian Paisley and his supporters.

Elizabeth of York's arms, showing her husband ’ s arms ( the royal arms of England ) Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling her own paternal arms: Femme: quarterly, first: Royal arms of England | France modern and England, second and third: or, a cross gules ( Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster | de Burgh ), fourth ( Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March | Mortimer ).

When the colony that is now New York State established its first twelve counties in 1683, the present Sullivan County was part of Ulster County.

Despite this, there are also smaller parades and demonstrations on 1 July, the date which maps the old style date of the Boyne to the new style in the usual manner and which also commemorate the heavy losses of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

Brian first had to find a means of getting through or around these defensive ' choke points ', and then he had to subdue the fiercely independent regional Kings of Ulster.

* John Anderson ( British Army officer ) ( 1908 – 1988 ), first commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment

Conchobar mac Nessa, the king of Ulster, had the " right of the first night " over all marriages of his subjects.

Fand appears in the Ulster Cycle tale, Serglige Con Culainn ( The Sickbed of Cúchulainn ) first as an otherworldly sea bird, and later as an avenging goddess ( or " Woman of the Otherworld ).

In 1696, governor Fletcher authorized purchases of Indian land near the New York border by a number of citizens of Ulster County ; their descendants became the first European settlers of Pike County.

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

Paisley's first political involvement came at the 1950 UK general election, when he campaigned on behalf of the successful Ulster Unionist Party candidate in Belfast West, the Church of Ireland minister James Godfrey MacManaway.

The new body decided to call itself Ulster Protestant Action ( UPA ), and the first year of its existence was taken up with the discussion of vigilante patrols, street barricades, and drawing up lists of IRA suspects in both Belfast and in rural areas.

As Paisley came to dominate Ulster Protestant Action, he received his first convictions for public order offences.

Healy Park, the main GAA stadium in the town, located on the Gortin Road, has a capacity nearing 25, 000, and had the distinction of being the first Gaelic-games stadium in Ulster to have floodlights.

Of the Ulster ports on the list, Carrickfergus was first, followed by Bangor, Donaghadee, and Strangford.

Rathlin was the site of the first Viking raid on Ireland, according to the Annals of Ulster.