They rebelled, using St. Patrick's shamrock as a symbol of their identity ... not all the people of Ireland are Catholic.

The green represents Irish nationalism; the orange, Ireland’s Protestant minority ... While the tricolor had gained traction as a symbol for Ireland until the 1916 Easter Rising, the primary ...

“St. Patrick” is symbolic in the United States of Irish Roman Catholicism and all it stands for. But the Protestants of Ireland, usually called “Scotch Irish,” take a very different vie ...

More than half of the Irish officers who served in the British forces were from a southern Protestant background, including generals O’Moore Creagh, Cunningham, Somerville, Montgomery ...

But not every Irish person is Catholic. Some are Protestant and wear orange to honor William of Orange, a Protestant who deposed King James II, a Roman Catholic, in 1688. The national flag of ...

and Protestants (orange) “Thomas Francis Meagher was a major figure in Ireland’s struggle for independent. His portrait hangs in the Taoiseach’s office,” Mr Varadkar said. Following his ...