What is the religion of Ireland and the religion of Northern Ireland your answer?

Religion Demographics of Northern Ireland

What religion are the Protestants in Northern Ireland?

The most substantial Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland, the Presbyterians, makes up more than one-fifth of the population. About one in six people belong to the next biggest Protestant denomination, the Anglican Church of Ireland.

What do the Catholics and the Protestants want in Northern Ireland?

Unionists and loyalists, who for historical reasons were mostly Ulster Protestants, wanted Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom. Irish nationalists and republicans, who were mostly Irish Catholics, wanted Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and join a united Ireland.

What is Northern Irish identity?

Northern Irish people is a demonym for all people born in Northern Ireland or people who are entitled to reside in Northern Ireland without any restriction on their period of residence. Most Northern Irish people either identify as Northern Irish, Irish or British, or a combination thereof.

What are Catholics in Northern Ireland?

While in the 2011 census 84.2\% of people in the Republic of Ireland identified themselves as Catholic in the 2011 census in Northern Ireland only 40.8\% identified themselves as Catholic.

Why are Protestants in Northern Ireland?

Many Ulster Protestants are descendants of settlers who arrived from Britain in the early 17th century Ulster Plantation. Today, the vast majority of Ulster Protestants live in Northern Ireland, which was created in 1921 to have an Ulster Protestant majority.

How did Northern Ireland become Protestant?

The Ulster Protestant community emerged during the Plantation of Ulster. This was the colonisation of Ulster with loyal English-speaking Protestants from Great Britain under the reign of King James. Those involved in planning the plantation saw it as a means of controlling, anglicising, and “civilising” Ulster.