Place-names Elsewhere, Originally Named in Honour of The Irish Province
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- Ulster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ulster County, New York, United States of America
- Ulster, New York, a town in Ulster County, NY
- Ulster Park, New York, United States of America
- New Ulster, the long-defunct name of the northern part of New Zealand
- Ulster and Delaware Railroad, in New York State
- Delaware and Ulster Railroad, in New York State
- New Ulster, a province in New Zealand (1841–53)
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Famous quotes containing the words originally, named, honour, irish and/or province:
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“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
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