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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Ulster"”.
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"No Idle Sightseers": the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Ulster Unionism(1911 - 1920)
This doctoral dissertation examines the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC), an overlooked, but historically significant Ulster unionist institution, during the 1910s and 1920s—a time of great conflict. Ulster unionists opposed Home Rule for Ireland. World War I erupted in 1914 and was followed …
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The Lambeg Drum in Ulster
… it is my impression that a large number of Ulster people know of the instrument by reputation but have never heard it. Those who have are mostly of the opinion that the Lambeg drum was designed specifically to make a very loud and irritating noise and that it has nothing to do with music. …
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Architecture in Ulster, 1972-1997
My aim is to chart the course of architecture in Ulster over the course of two and a half decades from 1972 to 1997, by means of a survey of the most important award winning buildings of that period.It is my intention that in the vacuum created by the absence of a fully comprehensive record of the …
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The Ulster Volunteer Force 1912-4.
… examine the evolution and role of the U.V.F. in Ulster from 1912-4. In the opening chapter the sectarianism that plagued Ulster during the Home Rule crisis is discussed. The work focuses on Castledawson in Londonderry, where an alleged attack by Hibernians against Presbyterian school children …
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Presbyterians, Ulster unionism and the establishment of Northern Ireland 1905-47
… the influence of Irish Presbyterianism on Ulster Unionism in particular, and on the political life of Ireland and Northern Ireland in general between 1905 and 1947. Its role has been contentious, under-examined and even the nature of the Church has often been misunderstood. <br/><br/>This …
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Sibling relations in Protestant middle-class Ulster families, c.1850-1900
… in twenty-three sibling sets from eight Ulster Protestant families over the second half of the nineteenth century. Few individuals grew up in the nineteenth century without siblings, meaning that these relationships played a more influential role in everyday life than previously …
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The political role of women in north-east Ulster, 1890-1940
… on the political role of women in north-east Ulster, specifically the suffrage campaign, women’s involvement in unionist and nationalist associations and in municipal and national politics. The extent, diversity and significance of women’s political participation has been uncovered both as …
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Prehistoric settlement patterns in central Ulster : evidence from artifacts and sites
… at the time, was the megaliths. Mid-Ulster was considered crucial to the typological and chronological arguments developed between de Valera and Corcoran. Plans of sites therefore had to be drawn as part of the programme.<br/>(c) At the same time another progressive aspect of …
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Ethnicising Ulster’s Protestants: Tolerance, Peoplehood, and Class in Ulster-Scots Ethnopedagogy
Toward the end of the Troubles, the notion of an Ulster-Scots ethnicity, culture, and language began to be pursued by certain unionists and loyalists more desirous of ‘something more racy of the soil’ (Dowling 2007:54). Peace-building in Northern Ireland had undergone something of a cultural turn: …
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ORANGEWOMEN SHOW THEIR COLORS: GENDER, FAMILY, AND ORANGEISM IN ULSTER, 1795-PRESENT
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal order within Northern Ireland that has branches across the former British Empire. Since its formation in 1795, it has been described as a brotherhood, definitively male with a triumphalist parade culture maintaining Protestant `civil and religious …
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"Common Plowmen's Children": The Frontiers of Ulster Catholicism, c.1680-c.1830
The dissertation argues that Ulster Catholic laity inhabited a social and cultural "frontier" through the early modern period. This mentality shaped how Ulster Catholics perceived and conceived their place and community in the rapidly changing religious, socio-economic and political situation in …
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Love, life and the family in the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844
… gender, this thesis examines how members of the Ulster Presbyterian community experienced family life as adherents of a distinctive religious tradition, between 1780 and 1844. Drawing on Presbyterian church records, personal correspondence, diaries and other personal and family papers, it …
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Making the past : history, identity, and the cultural politics of the Ulster Folk Museum
… politics involved in the creation of the Ulster Folk Museum, in that it records a particular version of Ulster's past and culture. In writing the history of a region, 'knowledge' is paramount - the story told being highly dependent on the author. These mediators, or 'organic intellectuals' …
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The second coming of Paisley: militant fundamentalism and Ulster politics in a transatlantic context
… Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in a Transatlantic Context. Dissertation directed by Associate Professor Meredith Veldman. Pages in dissertation, 345. Words in Abstract, 277. ABSTRACT On August 1, 1946, the Reverend Ian Paisley was ordained as the minister of the …
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Mid Ulster place-names: townland names in selected parishes in South Derry and North Tyrone
… of place-names in a number of parishes in Mid-Ulster. The key aim of the research project is to use evidence to work out the original meaning of the names. The thesis also discusses the decline and survival of the Irish language in Co. Derry and Co. Tyrone as well as the impact of settlement on …
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Sport, games, women and warriors: an historical and philosophical examination of the early Irish Ulster cycle
This thesis identifies the early Irish Ulster Cycle of tales as a rich source of information relating to the nature and significance of sport-like activity in the ancient world. Taking the tales of the Ulster Cycle as its data, this thesis adopts a method of analysis which combines aspects of …
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'A Platform Upon Which All Could Unite?: Temperance in Ulster and the Irish Temperance League, 1858-1914'
… looks at the Irish temperance movement in Ulster between 1858-1914. It focuses on the organisation, the Irish Temperance League that was formed in Belfast in 1858. The League’s fundamental aim was to provide a platform upon which all total abstinence reformers in Ireland could unite. This …
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