An Irish Harvesters Dinner. Potatoes and buttermilk. County Antrim. early 1900s.
(National Museums Northern Ireland) c/o NI Historical Photographical Soc #Antrim #harvest #Ulster

OTD 4th September 1607 the Flight of the Earls. Not a great day for some of us Maguires. #OTD #Maguire #Fermanagh #LoughSwilly #Rathmullan #Ulster #FlightOfTheEarls #Chieftains #CúChonnachtÓgMágUidhir #ONeill #ODonnell #Mastodaoine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Earls

It also adivses not to refer to Northern Ireland as #Ulster or as "The Province". Actually, can we get this piece of advice to everyone in the UK and some people in Ireland? Because NI is not Ulster. Ulster is one of the provinces of Ireland, and contains nine counties. Northern Ireland comprises six of those counties, making it ⅔ of Ulster. Yet so many people use "Ulster" to mean "Northern Ireland".

Proofing at the moment - should be out with @ucdpress in late Oct / Nov #WilliamSharmanCrawford #Ulster #Radicalism #IrishHistory #Crawfordsburn #SharmanCrawford

Ancestry adds new searchable indexes for the Ulster Covenant and WW1 Royal Victoria Hospital register
http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2023/08/ancestry-adds-new-searchable-index-for.html #genealogy #FamilyHistory #NorthernIreland #Ireland #Ulster

"Eleventh night bonfires lit across Northern Ireland"

Ulster says "No risk assessments required!"

#EleventhNightBonfires #Ulster

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gd8z3ygypo

And a few more items of #Ulster #Archaeology from 1856

Some rather beautiful illustrations from the first volumes of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology (1855) #Ulster #Archaeology #medieval #neolithic

As a #Louth woman I do feel more akin with people from #Ulster than I do Leinster in some ways. There's a way of speaking or an unspoken understanding that just hits different that I can't quite explain. And yes I know Louth was part of Ulster until 1596.

Fruit Pickers Lunch. #Loughall, Co #Armagh. 1904. (National Museums Northern Ireland). C/o NI Historical Photographical Soc. #Ulster

#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: After the wedding of #Cuchulainn and #Emer, the king of #Ulster had to exercise his "right of the first night". While #Conchobar mac Nessa feared #CúChulain`s reaction, he would have lost his authority if he had renounced his privilege. To preserve #Emer's virginity, #Conchobar shared the bed with #Cuchulainn's wife on her wedding night, but the #druid #Cathbad slept between them.

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #Ulster hero #CúChulainn was originally called Setanta, but got the name CúChulainn after he killed the hound (`Cú`) of Culan. In the tales he is said to have had a fierce temper and was a mighty warrior. To cool down his temperature, three vats of ice cold water were required, one story describes.
Source: https://www.askaboutireland.ie/narrative-notes/cuchulainn/index.xml

The Royal Irish Academy is excited to share that the #Ulster Settlers database created by Richard Fitzpatrick under the R.J. Hunter Digital Fellowship with Queen's University Belfast and Maynooth University, is now available to researchers and all who are interested in this period of Irish History.

Read more here: https://www.ria.ie/news/grants-and-awards/ulster-settlers-database

#irishhistory
#ulsterhistory
#ulsterplantation

A water monster called a muirdris frightened the king of #Ulster, Fergus mac Léti, so much that his head turned around to face his back. After 7 years Fergus returned to Loch Rudraige and killed the muirdris, but fell dead of exhaustion afterward, his head still facing backward.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/ceodraoidh/status/1611014931658297344

A water monster called a muirdris frightened the king of #Ulster, Fergus mac Léti, so much that his head turned around to face his back. After 7 years Fergus returned to Loch Rudraige and killed the muirdris, but fell dead of exhaustion afterward, his head still facing backward.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/ceodraoidh/status/1611014931658297344

Once when Fergus mac Léti (mac Leide, mac Leda) was out sailing, the #Ulster king was set upon by small water sprites who intended to steal his possessions and drown him. He turned the tables and snatched them up, holding them until they agreed to grant his three wishes. Fergus made only one wish in three parts: He wanted to be able to swim underwater in ponds, lakes, and the ocean. The #fairies agreed, but restricted his powers by saying he could not submerge himself in Lough Rudraige in Ulster.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `Lough Neagh comes from the Irish Loch nEachach, meaning 'Eachaidh's lake'.
After #Eochaidh had parted from his brother Ríbh, he continued into #Ulster. He also had been lent a magic horse under similar conditions. When the horse stopped and lay down, a well sprang up from the ground and Eochaidh decided to build his home there. He placed a cap over the well, and put a woman in charge of tending the well, but one day, after drawing water, she forgot to replace the cap, and the water flooded out, thus forming Lough Neagh. Eochaid, his young wife Ebhliu and all his family were drowned, apart from his daughter, Liban, who became a mermaid.`
Source: Ali Isaac

Eyebrows.
It's funny the things that come to mind when I think about growing up in the troubles...

#ulster #cartoon

https://ulster.visualthinkery.com/

Linen bleaching. Cullybackey, Co. Antrim. early 1900s. (National Museums Northern Ireland). C/o NI Historical Photographical Soc. #linen #Cullybackey #Antrim #Ulster

„The threefold death of Aedh Dubh, a King c588 of Dál nAraidi (#Ulster) was foretold by St Columba. Aedh had killed Diarmuid mac Cerbaill, and then took the priesthood but was ordained out of the church. For these sins, St Columba claimed he would die from a spear to the neck, fall from wood into water, and be drowned.
He was in fact killed on a boat, possibly on Lough Neagh, and subsequently fell into the lake and drowned. Whether this death was staged in order to fit the prophecy, or merely coincidental, cannot now be known.“
Source: Ali Isaac