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Between 1920–1922, within Northern Ireland, 557 people were killed: 303 Catholics, 172 Protestants and 82 police and British Army personnel. [179] A number of IRA volunteers were also killed. Belfast suffered the most casualties, as 455 people there were killed: 267 Catholics, 151 Protestants and 37 members of the security forces. [ 180 ]
The result was communal strife between Catholics and Protestants, [63] with some historians describing this violence, especially that in Belfast, as a pogrom, [64] [65] although historian Peter Hart argues that the term is not appropriate given the reciprocity of violence in Northern Ireland.
In particular, the city became a refuge for Protestants during the 1641 Rebellion when thousands of Protestants were massacred by Catholics. In 1689 the Siege of Derry took place, which resulted from the attempt by the Catholic Lord Deputy of Ireland, Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell , a supporter of the dethroned Catholic James II , to ...
30 September – BBC Northern Ireland launches a daily news bulletin called Today in Northern Ireland and replaces Ulster Mirror. 18 December – Television comes to the north western parts of Northern Ireland following the switching on of the Londonderry transmitter which provided the BBC Television Service to the north west. [1] 1958
Switzerland was to be divided into a patchwork of Protestant and Catholic cantons, with the Protestants tending to dominate the larger cities, and the Catholics the more rural areas. In 1656, tensions between Protestants and Catholics re-emerged and led to the outbreak of the First War of Villmergen. The Catholics were victorious and able to ...
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 ...
More than 500 were killed in Northern Ireland during partition [15] and more than 10,000 became refugees, most of them Catholics. [16] In 1926, about 33–34% of the Northern Ireland population was Roman Catholic, with 62% belonging to the three major Protestant denominations (Presbyterian 31%, Church of Ireland 27%, Methodist 4%). [17]
The region had a significant Protestant majority when Northern Ireland was created in 1921. More Catholics than Protestants in NI for first time since partition Skip to main content