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The Tudor conquest of Ireland (1529–1603) on the Catholic population of Ireland by the Tudor kings of England and their Protestant allies The Kildare Rebellion (1534–1535) The First Desmond Rebellion (1569–1573) The Second Desmond Rebellion (1579–1583) The Nine Years' War (1593–1603) The Third Dalecarlian Rebellion (1531–1533) in ...
This was the biggest massacre of Protestants during the rebellion, and one of the bloodiest during the Irish Confederate Wars. The Portadown massacre, and others like it, terrified Protestants in Ireland and Great Britain, and were used to justify the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and later to lobby against Catholic rights.
The bulk of Protestants in Ireland during Elizabeth's reign were confined to the ranks of new settlers and government officials, who formed a small minority. [8] Amongst the native Gaelic Irish and Old English , recusancy pre-dominated and was tolerated by Elizabeth for fear of alienating the Old English further. [ 8 ]
It did not know what was discussed but feared that the British were considering abandoning Northern Ireland. Irish Foreign Minister Garret FitzGerald discussed in a memorandum of June 1975 the possibilities of orderly withdrawal and independence, repartition of the island, or a collapse of Northern Ireland into civil war and anarchy. The ...
Much of this war is considered to be on religious grounds. [16] The 17th century saw Protestant-Catholic tensions rise particularly in Germany leading to the Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648. This war saw the destruction of much of Central Europe and divided much of the continent along Catholic-Protestant lines. Swedes, Danes, and French were ...
A 5.5-metre-high (18-foot) peace line along Springmartin Road in Belfast, with a fortified police station at one end The peace line along Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Protestant side The peace line at Bombay Street/Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Catholic side Gates in a peace line in West Belfast
BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for ...
7 July 1998 - The home of Catholic man Seán Dowds (63) and his English Protestant wife Joan Dowds (54) was attacked with petrol bombs after a group of loyalists terrorised the Collingwood housing estate in Lurgan. Both of them survived, however, Mr Dowds was rushed to hospital after suffering severe chest pains due to a history of heart attacks.