Ulster nationalism is a school of thought in Northern Irish politics that seeks the independence of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom without becoming part of the Republic of Ireland, thereby becoming an independent sovereign state separate from both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Independence has been supported by groups such as Ulster Third Way and some factions of the Ulster Defence Association. However, it is a fringe perspective on Northern Ireland. It is not supported by any of the political parties represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly or either of the two governments (the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of Ireland).
Although the term Ulster refers strictly to one of the four traditional Provinces of Ireland, the name is used to refer to Northern Ireland within unionism and Ulster loyalism, from which Ulster nationalism originated.
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“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”
—Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986)