ulster 
ul·ster (ul′stər)
noun
a long, loose, heavy overcoat, esp. one with a belt, originally made of Irish frieze
Etymology: after Ulster, where fabric was orig. made
Ul·ster (ul′stər)
former province of Ireland, divided in 1920, with six of its counties forming Northern Ireland & the other three forming a province of the Republic of Ireland
province of the Republic of Ireland, in the N part: 3,093 sq mi (8,011 sq km); pop. 232,000
loosely Northern Ireland
Modifies a noun
- unionist: Ulster Unionists will not re-enter an Executive that includes Sinn Fein.
- people: Ulster people have had nearly 30 years of a fearsome terror campaign inflicted on them, a campaign which cost 3,600 lives.
- Scot: Ulster Scots is basically English written as if you were speaking with an Ulster accent.
I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them, and in which, in my belief, they would not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people.
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.
Ulster will not be a consenting party.Ulster, attheproper time, will resort to the supreme arbitrament of force; Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right.
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