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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.
The Orange Order was founded by Ulster Protestants in County Armagh in 1795, during a period of Protestant–Catholic sectarian conflict, as a fraternity sworn to maintain the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. The all-island Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland was established in 1798.
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.
The Loyal Orange Institution, better known as the Orange Order, is a Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland.It has been a strong supporter of Irish unionism and has had close links with the Ulster Unionist Party, which governed Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1972.
The girl’s name Fiadh (Fee-ah) is perhaps “the biggest Irish name of the 21st century,” says Ó Séaghdha. It was the second most popular girl’s name in Ireland in 2023, after Grace.
The largest Protestant denomination is the Church of Ireland (having roughly 365,000 members, [2] making up around 3% of the population of the Republic of Ireland, 15% of Northern Ireland, and 6.3% of the whole of Ireland), followed by the Presbyterian Church, with a membership of around 300,000, [3] accounting for 0.6% of people in the ...
BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for ...
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.