It is worth noting, as David Miller has, that Ulster Protestants before the end of the nineteenth century thought of themselves as ‘Irish’, where even elements of affections “in such ...
Opposition to Home Rule was strongest in Ulster, where Protestants had benefited greatly from the industrial revolution and associated their economic success with being part of the British empire.
Monaghan has also been the county in the Republic with the highest number of Protestants and a separate part of the exhibition is devoted to the Ulster-Scots story as it pertains to the county.
Memories of the violence and betrayal experienced by one generation of protestants in the three counties entrenched an intergenerational Ulster loyalist identity. Subsequently, three-county loyalists ...
The Protestants of North East Ulster did not want to see the end of the Act of Union and felt it was important to their religious freedom and their businesses. Belfast and the surrounding Lagan ...
"If we don't have the Presbyterians in Ulster on our side in a new Ireland, we are definitely screwed." Former Sinn Féin executive minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir believes there will be a border ...