Jack Sinnott – ‘Protestants paying to have their culture squeezed out’ (March 19) – says that allowing an Irish language ...
When Donald Trump invoked the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members this weekend, I had ...
With nationalism ascendant and Catholics outnumbering Protestants, green was widely embraced, particularly since it had been worn by the United Irish. St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of ...
Of these, possibly about 20 per cent were non-Roman Catholics ... After more than two decades of Irish self-government, southern Protestants had become more comfortable with their identity ...
In the centuries after the Reformation, Liverpool mostly avoided the religious disputes that characterised other parts of ...
While the United States saw an influx of Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Canada proved to be a more attractive destination for Protestants. Seen as a place of loyalism and defiance since the war ...
As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...
We’d absorbed this idea by osmosis during our heavily Irish American Catholic upbringings. This meant that Bushmills, of course, was Protestant—or “Proddy,” as my dearly departed Grandpa ...
How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche.
Five lads from Northern Ireland blend their voices for the perfect Irish sound. Their show is a testament to unity after the ...
Like the American Colonists who rebelled against the British crown, a group of rebels called the United Irish launched an insurrection in 1798 in a quest for independence. Led mostly by middle-class ...