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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.
Today, the vast majority of Ulster Protestants live in Northern Ireland, which was created in 1921 to have an Ulster Protestant majority, and in the east of County Donegal. Politically, most are unionists , who have an Ulster British identity and want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom .
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 ...
Their descendants account for most of the Protestant portion of the Irish American population today. Sectarian conflict was continued in the late 18th century in the form of communal violence between rival Catholic and Protestant factions over land and trading rights (see Defenders, Peep O'Day Boys and Orange Institution).
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), an African Protestant Pentecostal evangelical church, established its first church in Ireland in 1998 in Mary's Abbey in Dublin. [20] Also in 1998 the Cherubim and Seraphim (Nigerian church) inaugurated its first church in Ireland, today there are 7 branches of the church.
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 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.
Protestants who are born in the Republic of Ireland are Irish Citizens. Protestants who are born in Northern Ireland are British and / or Irish depending on their political identity and whether they choose to exercise their right to claim Irish citizenship on the same basis as anywhere else on the island of Ireland (while there is a strong ...