ULSTER: NOT NORTHERN IRELAND!
Many of the enemies of Ulster like to claim we can’t call ourselves “Ulster Loyalists” or say we’re from “Ulster” because our country, Northern Ireland, is not called “Ulster”. They claim that because
Claim 1
“Ulster isn’t the official name of Northern Ireland”
Okay, and?
If someone says they’re from “The outback” you know they’re talking about Australia and you know that isn’t the official name of Australia, will you now stop all Australians saying that? America’s official name is “United States of America”, will you also stop people saying “America”? What about “US”?
Claim 2
“Ulster is the name of the province, not Northern Ireland!”
Irrelevant!
The borders of Ulster changed. Is America no longer America because it now includes states like California or Alaska despite not originally having them? No! What about Germany who no longer owns Northern Schleswig or Austria? India no longer owns Pakistan, can we not call them “India” either?
"The expression " Ulster," prior to 1920, was applied to the Northern Province of Ireland, and included nine counties. Since the passing of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, the six counties of Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone, with the County Boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry, have been statutorily constituted as a self-governing area, known as " Northern Ireland," leaving the remaining twenty-six counties comprised in the Irish Free State. To all intents and purposes, however, the traditional name of "Ulster" and the new political term "Northern Ireland” are synonymous in the public mind. This newly created " Northern Ireland " was by the same Act granted a form of autonomous government, but closely linked with Great Britain in the Fiscal Union known as Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
— The official Publication of the Ulster Tourist Development Association Ltd., General Information,
with a foreword by Lord Craigavon (lisburn.com) (Archive.is)
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