No. Ulster is one of Ireland's 4 provinces. It has 9 counties. 6 of those counties form what is called Northern Ireland. It does not belong to Great Britain. Great Britain is an island that consists of England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland, along with Great Britain, form the United Kingdom.
Most of the island of Ireland is independent of Britain as the Republic of Ireland. Only six counties of the province of Ulster in northeast Ireland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The province which forms the entire geographic north of Ireland is called Ulster. It has nine counties. There is also what is called Northern Ireland which is most but not all of the province of Ulster. It contains six of the counties of Ulster. The most northerly point on the island of Ireland is in Ulster but is not actually in Northern Ireland. It is in county Donegal, one the three Ulster counties that are in the Republic of Ireland and not in Northern Ireland.
Ulster has 9 counties. Only 6 of them are part of what is called Northern Ireland. In fact, the most northerly point of all of Ireland is in Ulster, but in one of the 3 counties that is not in Northern Ireland.
it's not called Northern Ireland, that's football, it's called Ulster, including the 3 Ulster counties of Eire. The crest bears the red hand of Ulster
'The Troubles'. Ulster
No. It is geographically in the north of Ireland. It is in the province of Ulster, the northern province of Ireland. However Ulster has 9 counties, of which 6 make up what is called Northern Ireland. Cavan is one of the other 3 counties of Ulster that are in the Republic of Ireland.
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Dublin
Ulster is not the name for any country. This is a common confusion. Ulster is a province consisting of 9 counties. 6 of those counties form what is called Northern Ireland. So Ulster and Northern Ireland are not the same.
Obviously that is a massively controversial subject. The short answer is "Because the majority of people in the six counties known as Northern Ireland consider themselves as British" It was Irish (mostly Ulster) Unionists in the late 1800's who with their allies in the British Conservative party who consistantly objected to the idea of Irish home rule, the idea of a separate homeland for the Protestant Ulstermen seemed like the only compromise, and it was the only thing that nobody wanted, not the British government, not Irish nationalists and not Ulster Loyalists.
It's an ancient Irish symbol for Ulster. In the Táin, which is an Irish epic equivalent to something like the Odyssey, the king of Ulster and his army are called the Red Hand.
No. The six counties of Northern Ireland are a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The rest of Ireland is a separate, sovereign country called The Republic of Ireland. Britain refers to England, Scotland and Wales, so no part of Ireland is part of Britain.