Talk:Ulster

I'm unhappy with this sentence, it just doesn't make too much sense. "English is spoken by virtually everyone in Ulster, apart from a few immigrants living in the province, and a handful of monoglots in the Donegal Gaeltacht." It's the bit about monoglots, which in the context makes no sense because the majority of people in Northern Ireland and indeed Ulster are monoglots only speaking English. They are as much monoglots as in Donegal Gaeltacht. Ben W Bell 10:22, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Lapsed, that's definitely better wording. Couldn't think how to rephrase it myself. Ben W Bell 10:40, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The history section is much longer than any of the others, should it have its own article? Stara Marusya (talk) 15:48, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Early in the article is a link to the article titled Gaeltacht, plural Gaeltachtaí ... on my browser, only the first of the two (aí) plural letters (to wit, the a and not the í) is made part of the hyperlink, though a review of the source editor doesn't suggest a reason therefor. This makes me think that Wikipedia's rendering engine isn't prepared to handle the unusual pluralization of the language; but I really don't know what's going on. Al Begamut (talk) 03:04, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Okay I've fixed it by bringing the last two characters inside the link. It's not a case of the software not handling plurals, it's a case of it was written with the last two letters outside of the link and for some reason the software has issues with auto linking accented characters. Something to do with ASCII sets I'm sure. Canterbury Tail talk 11:47, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks much. Your comment "for some reason the software has issues with auto linking accented characters" is basically what I meant to convey as my suspected reason; I'm glad you were able to resolve it for this article. Cheers! Al Begamut (talk) 19:22, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

For the table "County-based sub-divisions", the inclusion of Irish and Ulster Scots in the English language Wikipedia doesn't feel appropriate. I would like to suggest both be removed and only the English language county name remain. Cashew.wheel (talk) 14:42, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Agreed. That can be handled on the individual county articles. Not appropriate to have translations in a general article. Canterbury Tail talk 15:10, 13 January 2026 (UTC)