Originally Posted by pete2

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



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.