I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and banter I had with my friends I remember the most.
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.
Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
