L'Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, français : Force volontaire d'Ulster) est un groupe paramilitaire loyaliste d'Irlande du Nord, fondé en 1966, reprenant le nom d'une ancienne milice unioniste. Son objectif affiché est de lutter contre l'IRA et pour le maintien de l'Irlande du Nord dans le Royaume-Uni. Le nom vient des Ulster Volunteers, créés en 1912 pour défendre l'union entre l'Irlande et …

The Red Hand of Ulster (Irish: Lámh Dhearg Uladh), also known as the Red Hand Uí Néill, is a symbol used in heraldry to denote the Irish province of Ulster and the Northern Uí Néill in particular. However, it has also been used by other Irish clans across the island, including the Connachta, the ruling families of western Connacht (e.g. the O'Flahertys and McHughs) and …

Unionism is a political tradition on the island of Ireland that favours political union with Great Britain and professes loyalty to the British Crown and constitution.As the overwhelming sentiment of Ireland's Protestant minority, following Catholic Emancipation (1829) unionism mobilised to keep Ireland part of the United Kingdom and to defeat the efforts of Irish nationalists to restore …

UTV (formerly Ulster Television, branded on air as ITV1) is the ITV region covering Northern Ireland, ITV subsidiary and the former on-air name of the free-to-air public broadcast television channel serving the area. It is run by ITV plc and is responsible for the regional news service and other programmes made principally for the area.. The modern TV channel, ITV, is directly …

Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of Ulster Protestants who emigrated from Ulster in northern Ireland to America during the 18th and 19th centuries, whose ancestors had originally migrated to Ireland mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England in the 17th century. In the 2017 American Community Survey, 5.39 million (1.7% of …

The Ulster Special Constabulary was founded to reinforce the RIC in Northern Ireland. Some sources say the Black and Tans were officially named the "RIC Special Reserve", but this is denied by other sources, which say they were not a separate force but "recruits to the regular RIC" and "enlisted as regular constabulary". Canadian historian D. M. Leeson has not found …

The Tudor conquest of the late 16th and early 17th century led to the Plantations of Ireland, whereby Irish-owned land was confiscated and colonised with British settlers.The biggest was the Plantation of Ulster, which utilised estates confiscated from the northern lords who went into exile in 1607. Around 80% of these were distributed to English-speaking Protestants, with the …

Rathcroghan (Irish: Ráth Cruachan, meaning 'fort of Cruachan') is a complex of archaeological sites near Tulsk in County Roscommon, Ireland.It is identified as the site of Cruachan, the traditional capital of the Connachta, the prehistoric and early historic rulers of the western territory.The Rathcroghan Complex (Crúachan Aí) is a unique archaeological landscape with …

John Adams (známý i pod pseudonymem Alexander Smith a z něj pocházející zdrobnělinou Aleck; 4. prosince 1767 Hackney, Anglie – 5. března 1829 Pitcairnův ostrov) byl britský námořník a účastník slavné vzpoury na HMAV Bounty.Spolu s dalšími vzbouřenci a Tahiťany v lednu 1790 spoluzaložil osadu na Pitcairnově ostrově.V roce 1793 přežil povstání tahitských mužů proti …

Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from Great Britain.The Crown saw the plantations as a means of controlling, anglicising and 'civilising' Gaelic Ireland.The main plantations took place from the 1550s to the 1620s, the biggest of which was the plantation of …