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Protestants from Northern Ireland (6 C, 7 P) A. ... Pages in category "Irish Protestants" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
In a 2011 survey of 1,500 Orangemen throughout Northern Ireland, over 60% believed that "most Catholics are IRA sympathisers". [125] In 2015, the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland made a submission to the Northern Ireland Department of Arts, Culture and Leisure opposing the introduction of an Irish Language Bill. In its submission, the Lodge stated ...
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.
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.
Pages in category "Protestants from Northern Ireland" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
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 ...
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 ...
The Irish church was less affected by this controversy, although the Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh became a Non-Juror, as did a handful of the clergy, including Jacobite propagandist Charles Leslie. [32] The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland is traditionally viewed as beginning in 1691 when the Treaty of Limerick ended the 1689–1691 Williamite War.