Word: protestantized
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Ulster proved to be the most difficult section of Ireland to subdue, with its strong tradition of the old Gaelic order of poets, brehons (jurists), chroniclers and powerful lordships still intact. Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, with the help of the Spaniards, successfully fought Elizabeth...
The enmity that existed between the imported Scottish and English "planters" and the oppressed native Gaels was deepened by religious hatred between Catholic and Protestant. A venomous drinking toast dating back to the early days of the Protestant Orange Order illustrates how savage feelings were:
"To the glorious, pious and immortal memory of King William the Third, who saved us from Rogues and Roguery, Slaves and Slavery, Knaves and Knavery, Popes and Popery, from brass money and wooden shoes; and whoever denies this toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of...
The worst afflictions, however, were the Penal Laws passed by the Parliament in Dublin to ensure the continued supremacy of the Protestant minority. Protestant Wolfe Tone characterized the laws as "that execrable and infamous code, framed with the art and the malice of demons, to plunder and degrade and brutalize...
Impoverished by these laws, Ulster's Catholics were willing to work on farms for far lower wages than the Presbyterian peasantry. At the "Battle of the Diamond" in County Armagh in 1795, Protestant peasants beat up Catholic workers and later that evening founded the Grand Orange Lodge of Ulster...