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 ...

Ironically, Jackson, whom some historians have identified as the archetype of the Ulster Presbyterians in America, appealed to Irish Catholics but helped spur Irish Protestants into his opponents' ...

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 ...

The decision of the Ulster Unionist Council was deeply unpopular amongst the 70,000 Protestants of counties Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan who were sacrificed to the southern administration.

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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