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Ulster

Ulster \Ul"ster\, n. A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Ulster

northernmost of the four provinces of Ireland, 14c., from Anglo-French Ulvestre (early 13c.), Anglo-Latin Ulvestera (c.1200), corresponding to Old Norse Ulfastir, probably from Irish Ulaidh "men of Ulster" + suffix also found in Leinster, Munster, and perhaps representing Irish tir "land."

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ulster

n. (label en clothing men's attire) A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a ''greatcoat'', which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front.

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Ulster -- U.S. County in New York
Population (2000): 177749
Housing Units (2000): 77656
Land area (2000): 1126.477233 sq. miles (2917.562516 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 34.283190 sq. miles (88.793051 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1160.760423 sq. miles (3006.355567 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.856325 N, 74.146620 W
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Ulster
Ulster, NY
Ulster County
Ulster County, NY
Wikipedia
Ulster

Ulster (; or Cúige Uladh , Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster) is a province in the north of the island of Ireland. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a rí ruirech, or "king of over-kings".

The definition of the province was fluid from early to medieval times. It took a definitive shape in the reign of King James I of England when all the counties of Ireland were eventually shired. This process of evolving conquest had been under way since the Norman invasion of Ireland, particularly as advanced by the Cambro-Norman magnates Hugh de Lacy and John de Courcy. Ulster was a central topic role in the parliamentary debates that eventually resulted in the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Under the terms of the Act, Ireland was divided into two territories, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, with the border passing through the province. "Southern Ireland" was to be all of Ireland except for "the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry [the city of Derry]" which were to constitute "Northern Ireland". The area of Northern Ireland was seen as the maximum area within which Ulster Protestants/ unionists could be expected to have a safe majority, despite counties Fermanagh and Tyrone having slight Roman Catholic/ Irish nationalist majorities. While these six counties and two parliamentary boroughs were all in the province of Ulster, three other counties of the province – Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan – were assigned to the Irish Free State.

Ulster has no official function for local government purposes in either jurisdiction. However, for the purposes of ISO-3166-2, Ulster is used to refer to the three counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan only, which are given country sub-division code "IE-U".

Ulster (disambiguation)

Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland.

Ulster may also refer to:

Ulster (river)

The Ulster is a 56 km long river in Thuringia and Hesse, Germany, left tributary of the Werra. Its source is in the Rhön Mountains, near Ehrenberg. The Ulster flows generally north through the towns Hilders, Tann, Geisa and Unterbreizbach. It flows into the Werra in Philippsthal.

1Ulster Category:Rivers of Hesse Category:Rivers of Thuringia

Ulster (Werra)

'''Ulster (Werra) ''' is a river of Hesse, Germany.

Usage examples of "ulster".

Frasconis as a courier to Ulster went over to the Barbera side of things.

Ireland, was born at Faughart in county Louth, her father being a prince of Ulster.

Thurgood Pilling, the Norroy and Ulster King of Arms at the College of Arms.

He had seen her returning in her little pony-carriage from the window of his dressing-room, wrapped in a kind of nunlike ulster with large sleeves, and he had also noticed that she wore a small crucifix at her waist, and that, in addition to the frills and ribands with which she always seemed to be encumbered, there was a jasper rosary round her neck on the Friday of her arrival.

Ernest, bishop of Osnabruck, was created duke of York and Albany, and earl of Ulster.

Ireland as part of the Elizabethan and Jacobean clearances of the native Irish population of Ulster and the Crom-wellian and Williamite settlements of the rest of the island.

Ulster Scarlett brownstone on Fifty-fourth Street was being repainted and sandblasted.

They hear voices ahead, then are suddenly zooming out of Invisibility, in among the Axmen, who, believing them pitiless crazy predators in this place lonely as any in Ulster or the Rhineland, scatter for their Lives back into the Trees.

Years earlier, one of the scientists based at Aldermaston had given a lecture to a group of intelligence officers in Ulster on the kinds of metals the IRA bombmakers favored for their devices.

McQueen, sitting in his dingy Bangor oce running a hoe-and-comer business as a demoition contractor with assets consisting of a battered truck and a ton of second-hand sedgehammers, considered himself a self-made man and heartily ap proved of the Ulster Protestant work ethic.

Added to this, on the illegal side of things, he was not only a member of the IRA, but very much on the active list, having only been released from Long Kesh prison in Ulster in February after serving three years' imprisonment for possession of illegal weapons.

So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer steel.

And the wind carried her over the roof of a house where the men of Ulster sat at their ale, so that she fell through the roof into a cup of gold that stood near the wife of Etar the Warrior, whose dwelling-place was near to the Bay of Cichmany in the province that was ruled over by Conor.

According to the Encyclopædia, the Third was often known as the Junkyard Dogs or, simply, the Mongrels, because it tended to draw its members from the White Diaspora: Uitlanders, Ulster Loyalists, whites from Hong Kong, and rootless sorts from all of the Anglo-American parts of the world.

I have come to hear what Chief Mazeppa of the Dkota and Ulster has to say to the peaceful people he has attacked.