Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Irish Calvinist and Reformed Christians (1 C, 2 P) L. Irish Protestant religious leaders (1 C, 2 P) M. Irish Methodists (6 C, 14 P) Irish Protestant missionaries (5 C ...
The Church of Ireland's national Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin. Protestantism is a Christian minority on the island of Ireland.In the 2011 census of Northern Ireland, 48% (883,768) described themselves as Protestant, which was a decline of approximately 5% from the 2001 census.
In modern Irish nationalism, anti-Protestantism is usually more nationalist than religious in tone. The main reason for this is the identification of Protestants with unionism – i.e. the support for the maintenance of the union with the United Kingdom, and opposition to Home Rule or Irish independence.
Members of Christian churches, in Ireland, either past or present, for whom their membership was or is a defining characteristic or related to their notability and where the person has self-identified as a Christian. This is in accordance with Wikipedia's policy on biographies. Please add a biography to a subcategory, rather than this main ...
A portrait of Wolfe Tone. Protestant Irish Nationalists are adherents of Protestantism in Ireland who also support Irish nationalism. Protestants have played a large role in the development of Irish nationalism since the eighteenth century, despite most Irish nationalists historically being from the Irish Catholic majority, as well as most Irish Protestants usually tending toward unionism in ...
A Protestant Nationalist is an Irish and/or Northern Irish Protestant who, previous to 1922, supported Irish Independence from the United Kingdom. Post-1922, the term refers to Irish or Northern Irish Protestants who support separating Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and uniting it instead with the Republic of Ireland as a 32-county republic.
At the beginning of the 17th century, most native Irish were Catholic, with Protestant settlers in Ulster establishing an independent Presbyterian church. Largely confined to an English-speaking minority in The Pale , the most important figure of the Church's development was Dublin-born theologian and historian, James Ussher , Archbishop of ...
Controlled schools are 'church-related schools' because in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, the Protestant Churches transferred their school buildings, pupils and staff into state control (hence the terms 'transferor' and 'controlled') on the understanding that the Christian ethos of these schools would be maintained in perpetuity. [21]