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.

County Cavan was also formed in 1584 and transferred from Connacht to Ulster.

* Milton, Ulster County, New York, a census-designated place and hamlet in Ulster County

* Rochester, Ulster County, New York

Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

Category: People from Ulster County, New York

Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles ( 69 km ) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.

Within the Province of Ulster only the Clann Uí Néill ( known in English as the O ' Neill Clan ) of modern County Tyrone were more powerful.

For several centuries the O ' Donnells ruled Tír Chonaill, a Gaelic kingdom in West Ulster that covered almost all of modern County Donegal.

County Donegal was one of the worst affected parts of Ulster during the Great Famine of the late 1840s in Ireland.

The version of the Irish language spoken in County Donegal is Ulster Irish.

These men were from the 5th NY Regiment, Lamb's Artillery, Orange County Militia, and Ulster County Militia.

Until 1713, Dutchess was administered by Ulster County.

* Ulster County, New York, west

* Ulster County, New York-southwest

When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present area of Delaware County was divided between Albany and Ulster Counties.

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.

It appears, although the original tales are lost, that Fiachnae mac Báetáin ( d. 626 ), Dál nAraidi King of Ulster, was overlord of both parts of Dál Riata.

The original Northern Ireland Executive was established on 1 January 1974, following the Sunningdale Agreement, but collapsed on 28 May 1974 due to the Ulster Workers ' Council strike.

It is the original campus of what was originally the New University of Ulster which merged with the former Ulster Polytechnic at Jordanstown just north of Belfast in the early 1980s to form the present-day institution.

UTV Ltd .-the original Ulster Television Limited, now a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media-has returned to being solely the operating company for the ITV franchise.

The parliamentary constituency was original held by the Ulster Unionist Party with no serious opposition.

The West Belfast Division of the original Ulster Volunteer Force organised on the Shankill and drilled in Glencairn and many of its members saw service in the First World War with the 36th ( Ulster ) Division.

* Brian Durkin One of the original presenters at the historic launch of Ulster Television on 31 October 1959

He is the original ancestor of many of the families of Macartney in Ulster and Ireland.

As with much of Colchester County, the original inhabitants Upper Economy of Ulster Scottish origin.

The original family house now forms the centrepiece of the Ulster American Folk Park Museum.

The original founding members of the new service were: Abbey ( now Santander UK ), Alliance and Leicester ( now part of Santander UK ), Barclays, Citi, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks ( National Australia Group ), Co-operative Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Bank ( Danske Bank ), Northern Rock, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group ( including NatWest and Ulster Bank ).

Recent original compositions include Silk Street Stomp written for the Guildhall School of Music Big Band, Two Antiphonal Fanfares, Frighteners ' Gallop for 8 horns commissioned by the British Horn Society, Orage for 16 trombones written for Bone Lab and premiered at the Dartington Summer School, Processional for PJ written for large brass ensemble in memory of Philip Jones, The Birth of Conchobar again for symphonic brass and percussion commissioned by the Ulster Youth Orchestra, Three Sketches from Rackham for flute and harp, Flourish for solo trombone and Carillons for six harps.