The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide: A Contribution to the Study of Regionalism in the British Isles

According Anglo-Irish Anglo-Norman Antrim Armagh became BECKETT Belfast Britain British Isles Church colonists colony Connacht conquest contrasts cultural CURTIS Donegal Dublin Dublin government earl east Ulster ecclesiastical economic eighteenth century Éire emigration England English Episcopalian established fact frontier Gaelic Gaeltacht geographical GEORGE O'BRIEN Highland History Home Rule Ibid immigrants industry influence Irish Border Irish Catholics Irish Free Irish language Irish nationalism Irish Nationalists Irish Republic Irish Sea Irishmen king land boundary Londonderry lordship Lough Lowlands MACNEILL Mediaeval Ireland modern Munster natural Norse-Gaelic Northern Ireland O'Connell O'FAOLAIN O'Neill parliament Partition Plantation political population Presbyterians Protestant province regional religion religious rest of Ireland Roman Catholic says Scotland Scottish settlement six counties Southern term territory THOMAS O'RAHILLY tradition Tudor Tyrone Uí Néill Ulaid Ulster Presbyterians Ulster Scots Ulster since 1800 Ulster under H.R. Ulstermen Union United Kingdom Valera Viking Wales Welsh whole island WOODBURN