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 ...

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 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 ...

She is the author of Ulster's Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912-23 (2012) and the forthcoming Violent Loyalties: Manliness, Migration ...

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.

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.