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Like musician Brian Kennedy who grew up on Belfast’s nationalist Falls Road, I would have difficulty truly embracing the term “Ulsterman” given its cultural significance to others and its politically-loaded connotations.

Daniel Collins (Here: https://danieldcollins.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/irish-northerners-and-southerners/)

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George Bernard Shaw - The children of Ulster have been brought up without remonstrance or rebuke in the belief that all those who worship by a ritual different are abhorred by God and will on their death be burned throughout eternity

George Bernard Shaw wrote in June 1913 in the New Statesman, 'The Third Home Rule Bill and Ulster': "They have allowed the children of Ulster to be brought up without remonstrance or rebuke in that blasphemous irreligion which consists in believing that all those who worship by a ritual different to that used by the child's parents are abhorred by God, and will, on their death, be burned throughout eternity in a literal hell of burning brimstone. If an Ulster Protestant child expressed the smallest skepticism as to this it would be beaten as severely as if it had done its Christian duty by asking God to bless the Pope. That is what is taught by its parents, by its schoolmasters, by its pastors, and by a disgraceful silence which is taken as assent, and is meant to be so taken, on the part of our temporal and spiritual peers, our statesman, our press, our learned liberal professions and, in short, all those whose plain duty it is to repudiate such abominable rubbish by every means in their power until the ignorant become aware that what they imagine to be their religion is nothing but their rancor and their share of the guilt of the crucifixion."

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In the end you can always do a deal with an Ulsterman, but it’s not the way to run a modern, sophisticated society.

Kenneth Clarke (here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7679278/General-Election-2010-unionist-deal-could-make-David-Cameron-prime-minister.html)

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John Hewitt - ‘The Ideal Ulsterman’

John Hewitt wrote in Ancestral Voices

“The whole point of the ideal Ulsterman is simply that he must carry within himself elements of both Scots and English with a strong charge of the basic Irish. When I discovered, not long ago, that the old Planter’s Gothic tower of Kilmore Church still encloses the stump of a round tower and that it was built on the site of a Culdee holy place [older than Saint Patrick’s mission], I felt a step nearer to that synthesis. It is the best symbol I have yet found for the strange textures of my response to this island of which I am a native. I may appear Planter’s Gothic, but there is a round tower somewhere inside, and needled through every sentence I utter.”

As a point of interest ‘Planter’s Gothic’ is the designation of an architectural style in Ulster (see Denis O’D. Hanna, ‘Architecture in Ulster’).