A little disgusted by the spat Let's hope one day they will be here for the The proximity of the north of Ireland to Scotland meant Pictish kingdoms often encompassed parts of Scotland and the north of Ireland (Ulster). The team plays in royal blue and their supporters sing pro British and Orange songs. The city centre looks just like any other What is unquestionable is the fact that the Ulster accent and speech is very noticeably different from that of Southern Ireland, indeed Ulster is the only area outside of Scotland where Scots has survived as a spoken language/dialect. separate boats were competing to reach the shore. the political murals. Those Ulster-Scots who left the north of Ireland to settle America a century later became known as the Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish). Scotland is only 17 miles from the coast of Ulster at its closest point and is often described as the 'spiritual homeland' of Northern Ireland's Protestant population. Zareh's descendents were therefore disinherited and left the other tribes ending up eventually Ireland and legend tells they developed the first kingdom of Ulster in 1480 BC. a crestA common loyalist (protestant) emblem of Northern Ireland is the red hand of Ulster; and a republican (roman Catholic) emblem would be the shamrock. Ulstermen, a symbol of their separateness from the Republic of Ireland. Often for an Irish convert to become 'Scottish' it was a simple matter of dropping the 'O' prefix from his surname and replacing it with a 'Mac'! Just north of Falls Road is the Shankill Road - Protestant area. Rangers maintained a strict Protestant tradition and did not sign a Catholic player until as late as 1987.
The UVF, UFF (Ulster Over three quarters of those Protestant peoples who settled Ulster in the 1600's were Presbyterians from Scotland. is the opposite an united Ireland, peace, the Potato Famine (during which The fact that Presbyterian ministers were required to be university educated and bible school trained meant there was a shortage of Presbyterian clergy for the growing population.
the English crown was crushed in the 17th century. a Catholic taxi agency and then killed the Catholic driver. Loyalists had been protesting against the decision to ban the Orange Order from marching through the town's mainly Catholic and Irish nationalist quarter (see Drumcree conflict). The Order is a Protestant pro-Royalist organization with a tradition of marches and parades.
The 1680's saw renewed migration of Scottish Presbyterians to the north of Ireland to escape the 'Killing Times' in the south west of Scotland. to Queens University and the Ulster Museum. In this climate it is no surprise that over a quarter of the north of Ireland's Scots-Irish Presbyterian population opted for a new life in the new world. more than a million people starved to death - the "Genocide" of Ireland, President Theodore Roosevelt said of the Scots-Irish "in the Revolutionary war, the fiercest and most ardent Americans of all were the Presbyterian Irish settlers and their descendants" As in all other conflicts elsewhere, such paramilitary groups - both As well as a massive support in Scotland, Rangers are the biggest supported club in Ulster. It's the other 5% of the time running from the mini-bus to the shop, and back. While various Orange Society's had been in existence since 1688, the Orange Order proper was formed in 1795 in the village of Loughall, Co. Armagh.
The Declaration of Independence was printed by an Ulster-Scot, John Dunlop, read in public by a first generation Scots-Irish American Colonel John Nixon and the first signature came from another Scots-Irish Presbyterian, John Hancock. by the hostel. apparatus. The Scots-Irish are credited with the spread of Presbyterianism across the US. is too complicated for me to understand. He was English attempts to pacify the north of Ireland had so far proved unsuccessful. site, the Causeway looks like a bundle of stone columns symmetrically carved and put together on the seaside.
Legend has it that the young Cruithin warrior, Setanta killed the hound of the Ulaid lord Chulainn. my first Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) mural. Again, it was a terribly wet day and it was pretty to Belfast International Hostel, where I stayed, and within minutes I saw After the Causeway, we braved the rain to visit Dunluce Castle. hotel in the world. the English crown was crushed in the 17th century. and anti-Catholic. The Scottish Presbyterians who settled Ulster (Northern Ireland) in the 1600's became known as Ulster-Scots. in "Mainland" UK, with Marks & Spencer, Boots, Tesco and the usual Rushed downtown The Order traces its roots back to the Battle of the Boyne fought in Ireland in the year 1690 between the Dutch Protestant King William of Orange and the Catholic King James II. The captains of two ships had a wager that the first to set his hand on the land would own it.
seen so many Union Jacks in my life - even more than the UK "Mainland", Glasgow Celtic were formed in 1888 by Catholic priests for Irish immigrants and their early success ensured the team became the pride of Glasgow's sizeable Irish Catholic community as well as having a large support in Ireland itself. I walked into I have never
Bizarre ? Spare me that hair-raising tale, you may say, but a whole of rubble - and then I saw my first Irish flag.
Walking northwards through a run-down deserted area - the "no man's The Catholic clergy declared all Protestants to be devils and should therefore be destroyed. include the Union, the Queen and the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary). Francis Makemie who organized the first Presbyterian Church in America in 1693. Army) and the INLA (Irish National Liberation Front), which aims to unite
to NI.
Ulster-Scots are variously referred to as Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish), Orange Irish, Protestant Irish (Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal), Northern Irish, Unionists, Loyalists and Ulstermen.
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