Word: ulstermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their kerns and galloglasses (light- and heavy-armed infantry) won a succession of victories over the Earl of Essex, the Queen's favorite. The war dragged on for nearly a decade, and was climaxed by the Battle of Kinsale, at which the English defeated a combined force of Ulstermen and Spaniards...
...church that the angry Ulstermen fear so much is a good deal more adaptable than they admit. As soon as the English eased the fierce penal laws in the 1800s, it made its quiet peace with them, and by the 1916 rebellion was a definite anti-revolutionary force. In the '20s, it excommunicated Eamon de Valera for his part in the bloodshed, only to turn up shortly thereafter in full partnership with...
...about 900 main banks and branches; all these were forced to shut down. That left fewer than 40 branches-including two run by New York's First National City Bank and by the Bank of Nova Scotia-still open in all the Irish Republic. Beyond that, while Ulstermen may not ordinarily feel friendly toward the Irish Republic, apparently Northern Ireland's bank clerks are sympathetic to their compeers there. Result: more than half of Northern Ireland's 401 banks and branches also shut down...