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Feb 10, 2021 · The second part draws insights from it to better understand Ireland's long Protestant-Catholic conflict. The comparison is complicated by the fact that Catholic-Protestant conflict in Europe was, in the main, a single-stranded religious conflict within the same nation or ethnic group, 2 whereas in Ireland it was a communal conflict based on ...
When Northern Ireland was created, it had a Protestant majority of approximately two-to-one, unlike the Republic of Ireland, where Catholics were in the majority. The 2001 census was the first to show that the Protestant and other (non-Catholic) Christian share of the population had dropped below 50%, but 53.1% still identified as being from a ...
The map below shows the distribution of Protestants in Northern Ireland in 1991. Although it seems that about 2/3 of the province is Catholic, most of the blue areas are rural areas with a low population density, the only significant exception being Derry city in the northwest.
Over more than thirty years of violent conflict, Northern Ireland had an intense sectarian violence due to the political-religious opposition between its Catholic and Protestant communities.
Sadly, Belfast is also a city divided along religious grounds. Click on the thumbnail on the right to see a detailed map of Belfast coloured along Catholic/ Protestant lines [98kB]. The map below backs this up with a map of the distribution of Catholic and Protestant churches in Belfast [59kB]. As you can see, west Belfast is mainly Catholic ...
Sep 22, 2022 · By Mark Simpson and Darran Marshall. BBC News NI. The latest census figures show that for the first time there are more people from a Catholic background in Northern Ireland than Protestant. The ...
Nov 10, 2023 · No. The 2021 UK Census indicates that 42% of the Northern Ireland population currently describe themselves as Catholic while 46% say they were brought up in that religion. Both 42% and 46% are minorities, not majorities. Based on the Census data, Northern Ireland has no majority religion, either in terms of people’s current religious position ...
