{"id":1330,"date":"2023-01-15T07:50:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2023-01-15T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:52:05","slug":"is-ulster-the-same-as-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2023\/01\/is-ulster-the-same-as-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ulster the same as Northern Ireland?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>No. <\/strong>All of Ulster\u2019s nine counties do not make up Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The six counties of Northern Ireland are Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, and Tyrone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three other Ulster counties (Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan) are part of the Republic of Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ulster is one of the four traditional provinces of Ireland, derived from \u201cUlaidh,\u201d a tribal group that once lived in this part of Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five of Northern Ireland\u2019s counties encircle the freshwater Lough Neagh, \u201cEachaigh\u2019s lake,\u201d meaning the lough of the horse god Eochu of the underworld. The lake is the biggest in the British Isles, is owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury, and is famous for its eels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1331\" width=\"375\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-17.png 584w, https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-17-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The six counties of Northern Ireland, UK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Northern Ireland\u2019s sixth county, Fermanagh, contains the Upper and Lower Loughs Erne, actually widened sections of the River Erne. These freshwater lakes are known for their many islands, limestone caves, various water sports, and fishing for pike, bream, trout, and salmon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. All of Ulster\u2019s nine counties do not make up Northern Ireland. The six counties of Northern Ireland are Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, and Tyrone. The three other Ulster counties (Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan) are part of the Republic of Ireland Ulster is one of the four traditional provinces of Ireland, derived from \u201cUlaidh,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-writing","category-united-kingdom-and-ireland-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}