Protestants made up 10% of the population of the Irish Free State when it gained independence in 1922. Fast forward to the 2011 census and the figure was a little under half that at 4.27%.

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 the ...

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – ...

The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

The first round of the 2021 Northern Irish census results were released on Sept. 22, and it produced a shocker: Catholics now outnumber Protestants for the first time since the Northern Irish state ...

When Carla Hart sends the children out the door of their row house on Cluan Place in a working-class part of East Belfast, she never knows what will fall from the skies. And it’s not just the weather ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Shouting “No surrender!” and singing anti-Catholic songs, Protestant hardliners across Northern Ireland burned midnight bonfires topped with Irish flags and prepared to ...

Northern Ireland’s Twelfth of July parades will be watched with unusual care from London this year. Celebrating the central national holiday of Northern Ireland’s Protestants, the parades—known for ...

Throughout Northern Ireland's dark decades of war, Ian Paisley was the loudest and most charismatic voice on the battlefield, rallying Protestants in the hundreds of thousands against compromise with ...

LONDON – Police and politicians say a prominent member of an outlawed Protestant paramilitary group has been shot dead in Belfast. John Boreland, a member of the Ulster Defense Association, was killed ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were ...

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 the ...