In the 1800's was Ireland Catholic or Protestant?
the majority were catholic, the protestants mainly lived (and still do) in northern island alot of the protestants were descendants of scots that had been transplanted
Is Ireland Catholic or Protestant?
in the past was one ireland then english took over whole irleand they took everything from irish even last patetoe then they left, they gave back to irish half of ireland today called republic of ireland and northern part of ireland was under england, english send over there to NI people form scotland and england to settle thats why NI became protestant . today u got northern ireland in uk where live scotish english and irish there are protestants and catholics every catholic is originally irish. and southern Republic of Ireland where everyone is catholic. english people were alwasy talking that there wasa fight between catholics and protestants in northern irl. it wasnt cos of catholics and protestants just cos irish real irish catholic people wanted northern irl back to ireland. but england never allowed it to happen. so u got northern ireland with irish catholics and scotish and english protestants and southern ireland called republic of ireland free country real irish where everyone is catholic.
Ireland -- Protestants and Catholics?
Ireland is split into 2 entities, first is the main part of the island 80 percent + 26 counties its called the Republic Of Ireland ( its a sovereign country ) , which also is Known as the south, just to distinguish it from a major part of the north. It is almost exclusivaly Catholic 95 percent , 3 percent Protestant , and 2 percent other . It has been largely peaceful throughout the troubles ( 1969-1998 ) except large bombs in Dublin and Monaghan , killing 33 people the largest of all the bombs in the troubles and sometimes spilling into border areas around Northern Ireland , which is the 6 North eastern counties in the province of Ulster AND is a constituent country of the UK. It has a slim majority of Protestants 55 percent and 45 percent Catholic . Though there is a relative peace in northern ireland at the moment it still has small groups of on both sides who are still raw, its also very segregated into Catholic and Protestant areas , in which some interfaces have large peace walls and fences . The police stations North of the border are all fortified , as they used to have and still do sometimes , have some of the most dangerous police job in the world . be either North or South , The island is very beautiful though it rains a lot , its still a very breathtaking place, and it wont do you no harm to pay us a visit so you can judge for yourself :D hope this helps
Why do Protestants and Catholics fight in Ireland?
Why do protestants and Catholics fight in Ireland?Well, most of them never fought, and very few of them fight now outside of politics.The religious aspect of “Protestant” and “Catholic” in terms of Northern Ireland is pretty incidental; they’re really cultural labels (it bears very little resemblance to conflicts involving Islamic extremism, for instance). “Protestant” corresponds to “Unionist”/”Loyalist” and “Catholic” corresponds to “Nationalist”/”Republican” (with occasional exceptions and crossovers).Unionist folks are very attached to their British identity and Northern Ireland’s membership of the UK, and don’t want that to change. Nationalist folks are very attached to their Irish identity and want greater recognition of that identity. Further to that, many Nationalists (though certainly not all) would like Northern Ireland to leave the UK altogether and join the Republic of Ireland. (The terms Loyalist and Republican are also used, typically to refer to the more extreme end of either scale.)The conflict and division in Northern Ireland is pretty much based around that (and nothing religious per se, in spite of the sectarian overtones). Of those two sides, some groups have pursued their objectives through varying degrees of political vehemence (hence the often rabid and sometimes dysfunctional state of politics in the North), some of them have pursued their objectives through violence and terrorism (hence the Troubles), though that last bit is largely (but not entirely) relegated to the past since the Good Friday Agreement.Anyone who tells you the conflict in Northern Ireland was a religious one, that it was all-out war (it was a very low-intensity conflict), that it was a conflict “between England and Ireland”, and other such nonsense, is best ignored.
How well do Protestants and Catholics get along in Northern Ireland today?
It’s not normal, but it also isn’t something to be concerned about for the most part. I live in Northern Ireland and work in Belfast. Whilst I am a Unionist and many of my colleagues Nationalist, and they do say slightly partisan things from time to time, it never gets personal. It never gets beyond them wanting the England team to lose and the Republic of Ireland team to win, which isn’t where they are sitting- they are sitting in Northern Ireland which has its own team. I’ve yet to hear them say they want the Northern Ireland team to lose but I suspect that is an area they don’t want to broach.So, there is nothing like intimidation and the areas which you couldn’t go into, are areas the world over that are dodgy- run down and poor. The same could be said for Dublin and New York.I have travelled quite extensively through Northern Ireland in the last 10 years, following a soccer team which is from a notoriously Protestant part of the province. And I have been in the social clubs of the two notoriously Catholic soccer teams and apart from one rebel song, we have been treated with nothing but courtesy. That is the reality. In fact the young girl serving the burgers and hot drinks couldn’t get over how polite we all were, remarked it to my face.Yes, there are die hards, stupid or clever political motivated zealots on either side, but in my job which is in Fintech, and also has a lot of Indians (from India itself) you could not get away with anything outwardly offensive. The same goes for all my previous jobs, I met people and we never discussed religion or politics once, but I know they were from the other community. I like to think they know now that the people from where I live are not rabid and I know that they are not.
Did Catholics and Protestants ever date in Northern Ireland during the troubles?
Yes there were some but it wasn’t easy.While in many parts of Northern Ireland during the Troubles you could live quite happily the effects were all around you. And one of the biggest effects was a deep suspicion of ‘the other side’. It might not have been rational but when you knew people who were killed or injured it became very easy to see ‘them’ as the baddies and ‘us’ as the goodies.As such when I was growing up in the 80s it would have been frowned upon to have gone out with someone from the ‘other side’. For most people that wouldn’t have lead to any physical attacks (unless you were from a family or community deeply involved in the violence) but you would be talked about and perhaps family members would suggest you weren’t right for each other.I didn’t grow up in Belfast or Derry/Londonderry but rather in the country. Yet even there the Protestant and Catholic communities would stay fairly separate. Schools wouldn’t be explicitly for one group or the other but if you lived there you’d know which was which and you’d go to the right one. It was even a big deal in the 80s when the government tried to open ‘mixed’ schools for both Protestant and Catholics, it says something when you have to be explicit and say it’s a ‘mixed’ school. And some people (but not the majority) wouldn’t even go to a wedding or a funeral if it was in a Catholic church if they were Protestant and vice versa.So while for most it might not have lead to intimidation or physical violence it would still be tough to date someone from the ‘other side’. There’s two bits of culture that give some insight into what it was like. The infamous ‘Across the Barricades’ was a book we studied in school about Kevin and Sadie, a Protestant and a Catholic dating during the Troubles. It was set in Belfast so was tougher there but when we read it as teenagers we were in no way surprised by what happened to them:A Kevin and Sadie Story (Puffin Teenage Fiction): Amazon.co.uk: Joan Lingard: 9780140371796: BooksAnd in the 90s one of the biggest shows on television was by the comedian Patrick Kielty. He did a routine about trying to pick up a girl in a club but beforehand you had to work out if she was Protestant or Catholic. Even then what ‘side’ you were on was an issue for dating.
Are Protestants and Catholics in northern Ireland "biologically" the same people, but with different religions?
Genetically, there’d be very little difference. In the early 17th century there was a British effort to colonise Ulster with people from Great Britain. The bulk were Presbyterians from Scotland. As the Scottish are mainly descendants of people who invaded from Ireland over a thousand years earlier, it was more of a homecoming.It would be easy to say it’s religious, but it’s not strictly Catholic versus Protestant anymore. The division is more political than religious. Those that want to remain part of the UK and those that want to be part of a united Republic of Ireland. While it is true that 99% of the Protestants are Unionist/Loyalist/want to remain in the UK, half the Catholics also want to remain part of the UK, with one-third of the Catholics being Republican/Nationalist (as of 2012).You can’t really go by election returns because there is a substantial part of the population that are turned off totally by the politics of Northern Ireland and don’t vote at all. Catholics who want to remain part of the UK don’t really have a party that represents their needs, and there are many Protestants and secular people who don’t like the choices either.As long as the majority of Northern Ireland want to be part of the UK, the British government is duty and honour-bound to respect their wishes. And despite the region losing the Brexit vote (55.8% voted to remain, but with enough exceptions to tilt the vote in that direction, the results map almost matches the unionist/nationalist voting map), this is unlikely to change any time soon.
What effect will Bexit have on Catholic and Protestant relations in Ireland?
This really relates to the nationalist and unionist communities in Northern Ireland. (Take the Catholic/Protestant thing as flags of their political outlook). The fear is (and it is driving my government’s entire approach to Brexit) is that it will unravel the GoodFriday Agreement in NI. The GFA was a work of very delicate political art. Everyone got something no one lost anything outright and in so doing, created a chance for both communities to start moving on to wherever that takes them. If Brexit results in the return of even a soft border, you are pulling quite hard at quite a substantial thread. If you pull at threads ….