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UlsterA former kingdom and province in the north of Ireland, annexed by England in 1461. From Jacobean times it was a centre of English, and later Scottish, settlement on land confiscated from its owners; divided in 1921 into Northern Ireland (counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry/Derry, and Tyrone) and the Republic of Ireland (counties Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan). |
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| He was dressed in a suit of English tweed, with an ulster on his arm, and a valise in his hand. They gave my bobtail coat to somebody else, and sent me an ulster suitable for a giraffe. At the corner of Grosvenor Square and South Audley Street, a man passed him in the mist, walking very fast and with the collar of his grey ulster turned up. |
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