The Ulster Protestant or Unionist community (also called the Orangemen, for their distant ancestral connection to William of ...

This was known as the Plantation of Ulster and the English-speaking Protestants who took part were called 'planters'. However the Plantation of Ulster was going to cost a lot of money that the ...

The Ulster Division’s significance as a marker of embattled protestant culture was given new potency. Of course, as technological advance permitted more people to become amateur researchers many ...

despite a recent poll showing that 70% of Ulster’s Catholics favor some form of continuing association with Britain. For Protestants, perhaps the most galling provocation came last October when ...

while initiatives to include more Catholics in the police or civil service met fierce resistance in Cabinet and from bodies such as the Ulster Protestant Voter’s Defence Association, ever ...

“The Oul’ McMahons’ Spade”, a 1973 epic by Matt Duggan, also features in McKeagney’s book, although its last verse implies ...

The unionist government also recruited an all-Protestant militia called the Ulster Special Constabulary ("B Specials"), which only served to reinforce Catholic alienation from the police.

Protestant supporters responded in kind. Royal Ulster Constabulary officers (RUC) moved in and became involved in a pitched battle with nationalist rioters around the nearby Rossville flats.

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