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The Protestants of Ireland During the Irish Civil War
When we think of violence against Irish Protestants, we most likely think of Northern Ireland, but there were hundreds of thousands of Protestants who lived and live in what is now Ireland. Similar to their Catholic brethren in Northern Ireland, the Protestants were abandoned by all authorities to their fates. Join My PaTreon Respond Crisis Translation Linktree The number of Protestants in…
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Episode 57 - Protestants During the Irish Civil War
When we think of Irish Protestants, we must likely think of Northern Ireland and the Troubles, however, they were hundreds of thousands of Protestants who lived in the rest of Ireland during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. This episode discusses the troubles they ran into as they tried to adjust living in a new state that was descending into civil war. Join My…
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“The king is dead! The king is dead!” Kenneth shouted over the garden hedge. I ran into our house and broke the awful news. “Well, he’s not our king,” Mammy said calmly. In 1952, we were the only Catholics living in a four-house cul-de-sac off the Ballymahon Road in Athlone. We got on well with our Protestant neighbours, but tensions surfaced at times, such as when my mother overheard Kenneth say to me, “My mummy said that that the Tiernans are common.” Protestants were different in lots of ways to us “Roman” Catholics, but to me and my brother, Brian, the defining differences between them and us were that they wore underpants, had proper toilet paper and ate cornflakes instead of porridge. When we complained about these deprivations, our lives improved somewhat. We no longer had to put up with cold bottoms and cut-up Westmeath Independents, but Daddy would not yield to our whingeing for cornflakes. He was from Mayo, and deep in his subconscious, maize was synonymous with famine and the workhouse. On his home farm it was fed to the animals and was known as “Injun male” or “yella maize”. It was not for humans, even if it came in a fancy box.
Kevin Tiernan (Here: http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/protestants-they-wore-underpants-had-proper-toilet-paper-and-ate-cornflakes-not-porridge-1.2807530)
We protestants of the Irish Republic are no longer very interesting to anyone but ourselves. A generation ago we were regarded dramatically as imperialistic blood-suckers, or, by our admirers, as the last champion of civilisation in an abandoned island. That is the way the Roman settler may have appear to himself and others, when the legions had departed from Britain and he was left alone with the tribes he had dispossessed. Our brothers in the north are still discussed in such colourful terms.
Hubert Butler - Portrait of a Minority (1954) (Here: http://brianjohnspencer.tumblr.com/post/139448932178/hubert-butler-portrait-of-a-minority-1954)
It is one of the the glories of the Church in which I was born that we have put our bishops in their places in discussions requiring legislation.
WB Yeats (Via Roy Foster, p. 191: http://brianjohnspencer.tumblr.com/post/139416289243/if-anything-is-now-clear-and-even-some-sinn-fein)
Between 1911 and 1991, Catholics rose as a proportion of the population of Northern Ireland from 34 per cent to at least 38 per cent (by some reckonings now substantially more). Over the course of this century, McDowell points out, the number of Protestants in what is now the Irish Republic fell from more than 10 per cent to less than 3 per cent. If those figures applied to minorities in any other two adjacent territories in Europe, it is hard to believe that any historian would claim it was the latter minority that had been cosseted.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft (here: http://www.reform.org/site/1999/12/31/crisis-and-decline-the-fate-of-the-southern-unionists/)
What chance of building a united, socialist Ireland on a heap of Protestant corpses?
Dead Godson (here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/28076/a-tribute-to-ulsters-ajp-taylor/)
Derek Mahon - Protestants aren't devout, they're staunch
Derek Mahon said to the Paris Review: "[My parents] were Protestants! There’s no such thing as a devout Protestant, is there? Protestants aren’t devout, they’re staunch. So it was all appearances." See here: http://brianjohnspencer.tumblr.com/post/127388061683/derek-mahon-on-his-belfast-church-going
