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12 lis 2021 · In 1921, the Irish successfully fought for independence and Ireland was partitioned into two countries: the Irish Free State, which was almost entirely Catholic, and the smaller Northern...
In response to the campaign for Home Rule which started in the 1870s, unionists, mostly Protestant and largely concentrated in Ulster, had resisted both self-government and independence for Ireland, fearing for their future in an overwhelmingly Catholic country dominated by the Roman Catholic Church.
17 wrz 2024 · the Troubles, violent sectarian conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the overwhelmingly Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland.
10 lut 2021 · Ireland's Catholic-Protestant conflict rests on multiple, overlapping differences: religious, ethnic, colonial, political. To better understand it, and in particular its religious aspect, I trace Europe's long Catholic-Protestant conflict, how it began, reproduced itself over time, and finally came to an end in the twentieth century.
8 kwi 2022 · Why Protestants and Catholics clashed in Northern Ireland. The Troubles arose from longstanding grievances between Catholics and Protestants who held deeply opposing views on Northern...
26 kwi 2022 · The Catholic and Protestant conflict in Ireland is known as “the Troubles.” The Troubles occurred from 1968 to 1998. During the Troubles, great conflict, violence, and riots infiltrated Ireland.
23 paź 2010 · The uprising of Irish Catholics in October 1641 followed decades of tension with English Protestant settlers and many thousands of men, women and children lost their lives. The Protestant death...
