the official Plantation is often seen as independent from surrounding developments... The Plantation of Ulster, promulgated in 1609 by King James I and launched a year later, lasted 15 years. Like ...

For Gillian Rea, speaking Ulster Scots was a normal part of her childhood and she wants to see others enjoying the culture. A ...

The history of Scottish migration to Ireland can be traced to the middle ages when Scottish gallowglass or mercenary soldiers were employed by Gaelic lords. Some settled permanently in Ulster, a ...

Before the Dutch, before the English, and before the present-day inhabitants of Ulster County, there were the Indians, the first Americans and its first settlers. On this land, the original people ...

ULSTER PARK, N.Y. — On top of a small hill in Ulster Park sits a brick building, previously a Dutch church built in 1827. Now operated by the Town of Esopus Historical Society, the church has become a ...

History Ireland is a bi-monthly publication which has been in production for fifteen years. Each issue of History Ireland aims to provide the reader with a wide variety of topics from the earliest ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Hundreds gathered on the Rondout Waterfront on Sunday for this year’s Ulster County Italian Festival, organized by the Ulster County Italian-American Foundation. Despite cloudy ...

On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, two small, separate deposits of sad memory were laid down in Northern Ireland, as new memorials to the dead of its Troubles were unveiled. In Richhill, a tidy ...

Once described as Armagh’s finest antiquarian but now largely forgotten, John Corry (1805-1856) is to be commemorated with an Ulster History Circle blue plaque in the city. A dedicated collector, he ...

The plaque, installed by the Ulster History Circle, was revealed yesterday at the Ladies’ Clubhouse of the Royal Portrush Golf Club — the site where May, as a teenager, achieved one of her most ...