Bất kỳ điều trị của Anh tại Ireland phải có tài khoản đặc biệt của tình hình ở Ulster. Lý do cho việc này nằm trong lịch sử giải quyết của tỉnh này đã dẫn đến sự ra đời của Scotland và các hình thức tiếng Anh ở miền bắc, và vẫn còn, khác biệt với tất cả các giống tiếng Anh ở phía nam của đất nước. | 3 History II The settlement of Ulster Background Any treatment of English in Ireland must take special account of the situation in Ulster. The reason for this lies in the settlement history of this province which led to the introduction of Scots and forms of northern English which were and still are distinct from all varieties of English in the south of the country. There has also been as in the south interaction between forms of English and Irish which has added a further dimension to the linguistic complexity in the north. The northern part of Ireland is usually referred to as Ulster the most northerly of the four present-day provinces. It literally means the country of the Ulaidh the people who historically inhabited this area. The word Ulster consists of Ulaidh s tir a Norse-Irish formation similar to Munster and Leinster provinces to the south and east respectively The now opaque compound contains the Irish name of the people Ulaidh followed by a Norse genitival s and a phonetically reduced form of ti r the word for country in The label Ulster is also used loosely today to refer to Northern Ireland a part of the United Kingdom which came into existence when Ireland was partitioned in 1921. Northern Ireland consists of six counties - Antrim Down Armagh Derry Tyrone and Fermanagh - but the province of Ulster actually consists of nine counties the three additional ones are Donegal north-west Ulster Monaghan and Cavan south Ulster which are within the Republic although they are linguistically northern. The early political history of the province can be traced back at least to the various kingdoms which existed before the Middle Ages see map of these at around 800 in Bardon 1996 17 . A prominent kingdom was that of the Dal Riata in the Glens of Antrim in the north-east which in the fifth century extended its My thanks go to the following colleagues who have been very helpful with comments and advice on the structure and contents of this chapter Karen .
