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.

* The Ulster Volunteers started in 1912 and organised as the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1913

That was complemented by a poetry revival and nascent prose genre in Ulster, which started around 1720.

He started singing in local churches in the Bogside at the age of seven, and as a teenager added two years to his age to enlist in the Irish Guards, later serving abroad with the Palestine Police Force, before returning in the late 1930s to join the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

* Colin Murray-BBC Radio Five Live presenter and former BBC Radio 1 DJ started with BBC Radio Ulster as a presenter on the Across the Line programme

Central, Thames, Scottish and TSW started the series in 1987, with most other regions starting to broadcast it in 1988 ( nearly two years after it finished production ), with it not starting in the Ulster region until late 1989.

Under James the Plantation of Ulster by English and Scots Protestants began, and the English colonisation of North America started its course with the foundation of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

Although Wire FM was started by the Independent Radio Group, it is currently part of UTV Media after IRG was bought by The Wireless Group in 1999, with TWG then taken over in 2005 by Ulster Television plc.

About the time the Plantation of Ulster was planned, the Virginia Plantation at Jamestown in 1607 started.

Of Northern Ireland's five main parties, only the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland have historically had a significant organisation and support in the constituency, though the Democratic Unionist Party has recently started to gain a foothold where it hitherto was near non-existent.

The 2009 / 10 season was the beginning of a new era for Ulster, as they got new management staff, a newly improved Heineken Cup campaign where they got their first ever win on English soil against Bath Rugby, a brand new stand at Ravenhill and more fans started to follow the team.

The dynasties were to be included in the system and use English law, and the process took decades of treaty negotiations and wars, ending with the Plantation of Ulster that started in 1607.

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.

The Northern Ireland ( St Andrews Agreement ) Act 2006 amended the Northern Ireland Act 1998 to insert a section ( 28D ) entitled Strategies relating to Irish language and Ulster Scots language etc.

In August 2006, the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force claimed they had planted a bomb in the Mansion House in 1981, in an attempt to wipe out the Sinn Féin leadership at their party conference of that year.

* In 2006 a plaque was unveiled at the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

On 13 May 2006, it was announced that when the Northern Ireland Assembly reconvened, Ervine would join the Ulster Unionist assembly group, while remaining leader of the Progressive Unionists.

On the 11 September 2006 Ms Bell announced that the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly Group did not have a headquarters, at least one party leader and a scheme for financial support ; thus it did not qualify as a political party.

At the company's annual general meeting in Belfast on 26 May 2006, the registered company name was changed from ' Ulster Television plc ' to ' UTV plc '.

In 2006, the Royal Irish Regiment was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, which entitled the UDR to be known as The Ulster Defence Regiment CGC.

The legal basis for Ireland's heraldic authority, and therefore all grants since 1943, has been questioned by the Attorney General, therefore, on May 8, 2006 Senator Brendan Ryan introduced the Genealogy & Heraldry Bill, 2006, in Seanad Éireann ( Irish Senate ) to remedy this situation and legitimise actions since the transfer of power from the Ulster King of Arms.

In August 2006, Dungannon won Ulster In Bloom's Best Kept Town Award for the fifth time.

Most recently on 25 February 2006 rioting broke out between Gardaí and a group of hardline Irish Republicans protesting the march of a " Love Ulster ", loyalist parade in O ' Connell Street.

In November 2006 Ulster Bank issued its first commemorative banknote – an issue of one million £ 5 notes commemorating the first anniversary of the death of the former Northern Ireland and Manchester United footballer, George Best.

Ulster won the Heineken Cup in 1999 and won the Celtic League in 2006.

A Dublin riot in 2006 prevented a march organised by " Love Ulster ", though the rioters did not have a wide support base.

The Ulster Museum was closed for nearly three years ( 2006 to October 2009 ) while it was under renovation.

Bonelli was taken to the Ulster County jail ; on March 15, 2006, Bonelli pleaded guilty and on May 20, 2006 was sentenced to 32 years in the state prison ( the maximum allowed under the guilty plea ).

In April 2006, Healy Park became the first Gaelic football stadium in Ulster to have floodlighting installed.

Back in Llanelli, Jones and the team had an excellent run in the Heineken Cup in 2007 and reached the semi-finals after wins home and away against Ulster and Toulouse, and a comfortable home victory against 2006 winners Munster in the quarter-finals.

* Margaret O ' Callaghan-Dr. O ' Donnell, " The Northern Ireland Government, the ' Paisleyite Movement ' and Ulster Unionism in 1966 ", Informaworld, Irish Political Studies, Volume 21, Issue 2 June 2006, pages 203-222

From 2004 to 2006, the Ulster Final had been played in Croke Park, because of its higher capacity.

They included the 1½-litre " T-type ", the " International ", the " Le Mans ", the " MKII ", its racing derivative, the " Ulster ", and the 2-litre 15 / 98 and its racing derivative the " Speed Model ".

With rival paramilitary organisations appearing in both the nationalist / republican and Irish unionist / Ulster loyalist communities ( the Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), etc.

A Police Service of Northern Ireland / Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Northern Ireland.

On 9 January 1998, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, paid a surprise visit to the prison to talk to members of the Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UDA / UFF ) including Johnny Adair, Sam McCrory and Michael Stone.

AC / DC performing at the Ulster Hall in August 1979

The Gáe Bulg ( also Gáe Bulga, Gáe Bolg, Gáe Bolga ), meaning " spear of mortal pain / death spear ", " gapped / notched spear ", or " belly spear ", was the name of the spear of Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

In the 5 / 6th century, Fergus, the son of Erc of Armoy, left the province of Ulster to form a kingdom in Scotland.

Being of Irish descent, Boyce, and / or his son Henry Archinard Boyce, gave all the streets Irish names as he did his own plantation, Ulster, which was immediately adjacent to the town along Bayou Jeunes des Gens ( Jean de Jean ).

It has been suggested that she was named after Elizabeth of Ulster, however it is worth remembering that Philippa had an elder sister, named Elizabeth / Isabel.

The Prince of the Fews is a male line descendant of Art mac Aodha, King of Ulster ( r. 1509-1513 / 4 ), grandson of Eóghan Ó Néill Mór, King of Ulster ( d. 1456 ), however it is uncertain if Art was a paternal or maternal grandson, and whether his father Aodh Ó Néill descended from the Tyrone or Clanaboy O ' Neills in the male line.

1590 – 1649 ), anglicised as Owen Roe O ' Neill / Eoin Roe O ' Neill (" Red Owen "), was a seventeenth century soldier and one of the most famous of the O ' Neill dynasty of Ulster.

So alienated was O ' Neill by the terms of the peace the Confederates had made with Ormonde that he refused to join the Catholic / Royalist coalition and in 1648 his Ulster army fought with other Irish Catholic armies.

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.

Aiken, operating from the south Armagh / north Louth area, was one of the most effective IRA commanders in Ulster during the conflict.

Pogue / Pollock / Polk Genealogy As Mirrored in History, From Scotland to Northern Ireland / Ulster, Ohio, and Westward.