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The Irish Church Missions (ICM) is a conservative and semi-autonomous Anglican mission.It was founded in 1849 as The Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics chiefly by English Anglicans though with the backing and support of Church of Ireland clergy and bishops, with the aim of converting the Roman Catholics of Ireland to Protestantism.
The Maynooth Grant was a cash grant from the British government to a Catholic seminary in Ireland. In 1845, the Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, sought to improve the relationship between Catholic Ireland and Protestant Britain by increasing the annual grant from the British government to St Patrick's College, Maynooth, a Catholic seminary in Ireland in dilapidated condition.
In 1969, Wilson was a founding member of PACE (Protestant and Catholic Encounter). It was an initiative that, among others, attracted Catholics who, seeking to test the boundaries of liberal unionism (offered by the then Prime Minister, Terence O’Neill), had seen their applications to join the governing Ulster Unionist Party rejected. [37]
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As it became mainly Catholic in the early to mid-1970s, the Protestants mostly relocated to housing vacated by Catholic families in Protestant estates, such as Killicomaine, where similar intimidation had forced Catholics out. Rectory Park: A Protestant estate on the outskirts of the town that saw its fair share of trouble during the 1980s and 90s.
The shift comes a century after the Northern Ireland state was established with the aim of maintaining a pro-British, Protestant "unionist" majority as a counterweight to the newly independent ...
The fact that most people in Ireland belonged to some religion, and that the education system and to a lesser extent the health system were denominational in structure, with Roman Catholicism, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church, the Jewish community, and others running their own schools and non-governmental ...
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