Word: protestantized
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In 1156, Adrian IV, an English Pope, granted sovereignty over Ireland and its Celtic inhabitants to England's Henry II. For the next four centuries, the English tried sporadically and without success to conquer the Emerald Isle. In 1601, however, an army of Elizabeth I defeated the last of...
1921. After two years of guerrilla warfare between Ireland and Britain, the 26 predominantly Catholic southern counties of Ireland became the Irish Free State, while the six northern counties became the Protestant-dominated British province of Northern Ireland.
THE Ulsterman was born of the Industrial Revolution, the Irishman of the Book of Kelts" one Northern Irish journalist wrote recently. The curious thing about the Ulster Protestant is that he feels neither completely Irish nor completely British. Catholic Ireland, he fears, will submerge his Protestant identity; Britain, he fears...
Each July 12, arches are erected for the Orange Order parades celebrating "King Billy's" 1690 victory at the Battle of the Boyne. On the arches is the phrase "This We Will Maintain," taken from William of Orange's motto Je maintiendrai. For nearly three centuries, Protestants have...
As the Protestants see it, the Catholics have opted out of the system by refusing to recognize Ulster's independence from the rest of Ireland. Schools are segregated, they point out, because Catholics insist upon it. To many if not most Protestants, Catholics are lazy, "breed like rabbits," and...