The Ulster flag has been the representative and legal emblem of the re-created state of Ulster or Northern Ireland since just after the then Irish Free state succeeded from the United Kingdom. During 1924, the then Ulster government was granted 'Arms' by Royal Warrant and was given the right to display these arms on a flag or banner which resulted in the creation of what we now call and identify as the Ulster flag. Its design was by Sir Gerald Wollaston, the then 'Norray and Ulster King of Arms' and given consent by the then reigning monarch King George V, and by 1953, Queen Elizabeth II also gave the flag Royal Assent after her coronation. Since then, the gross majority of Ulster people have recognised this flag as the representative flag of their country within the United Kingdom. In addition, it is recognised as this state's emblem by numerous foreign governments, institutions and even sporting organisations such as  FIFA, UEFA and the Commonwealth Games Committee. It is flown when our fellow citizens participate in an event or are representatives within corporate functions, even Microsoft and Sony recognise it as a format of identification within their games consoles.

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In 1973 after the undemocratic removal of the Ulster Parliament by Irish apologists in Westminster and the consultation with the Irish Republic, the 'Constitution Act' ordered the legal removal of the Ulster flag, it did not, it was only suggested! During these times and the unfolding betrayal, Ulster people refused to even fly the Union flag, for them only the Ulster flag represented their identity. By 1998 and the Belfast Agreement ('Good Friday Agreement') a further attempt was made to attack Ulster's identity within the 'Flags Rugulations (NI 2000), while some, mostly Irish nationalists & misinformed 'unionists', have said that this was the end of the 1924 Ulster flag, it was not again, these regulations only applied to creating an unrepresentative system of so-called 'designated days', but only it regarded to the Union flag.  

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Irish nationalists together with their cohorts within the UK have as a smokescreen, for the time being, accepted that the Union flag be the emblem of this part of the UK (or Ireland, as they see it), and in addition some Ulster people unknowingly (or knowingly) have agreed. This is totally wrong and misjudged. The Union flag represents the political union between three countries, England, Ulster and Scotland, and one principality, Wales, it does not represent one. Furthermore, all these nations have their own distinctive flag to define their own distinct identity, thus the Union flag is always flown in Scotland with the Scottish Cross of St Andrew (Saltire), in England with the English Cross of St George, or in Wales with the Welsh 'Red Dragon.' The Irish nationalist intention is to banish & destroy our identity and any symbol that goes with it or still maintains Ulster's ancient seperateness from Ireland. In this sense then, the Ulster flag, (not the Cross of Patrick which once represented British Ireland, or the the old British 'provincial' Ulster flag which now stands as a symbol of Irish nationalism) should always accompany the Union flag as with other national flags throughout the United Kingdom.

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