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Originally Posted by Thranduil  The word 'atrocity' is very strong<snip> |
Thank you for your comprehensive post. Atrocity was too strong, the word in the article was "persecutions" so apologies. Raising that does lead onto what the author hints at. Ive heard that a widely held unionist view is that there was widespread agitation against their co-religionists back then. A representative sample below
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'the fall in protestant population has never been explained'
Actually the reasons are very well documented.
1. Massive workplace discrimination and social intimidation in the decades following partition. 30% of the pre 1921 protestant population had emigrated by 1926 (I know Ireland had a protestant president at the time - go figure)
2. The marriage rules introduced by the catholic church in the early 20th century that sought written prenuptial garuntees that all children must be brought up catholic. Before that the (very sensible) Irish tradition was that girls would follow the mothers religon and the boys would follow the fathers. The church also refused to recognise civil marriages for the catholic participant.
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From an anonymous comment in the northern loyalist press
here. I would guess this is accurate given the times but perhaps this is what the author of the article was getting at. To reintroduce a "protestant voice" to public life is to acknowledge wrongs that were done, and make amends/compensation (of a political not financial kind). This cannot return to a hegemony of course, but to have some political input into public affairs. I'm sure this already exists via various political figures but is it perceived to exist? that might be the issue.
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