Divisions between Irish Roman Catholics and Irish Protestants played a major role in the history of Ireland from the 16th century to the 20th century, especially during the Home Rule Crisis and the Troubles. While religion broadly marks the delineation of these divisions, the contentions were primarily political and they were also related to access to power. For example, while the majority of Irish Catholics had an identity which was independent from Britain's identity and were excluded from power because they were Catholic, a number of the instigators of rebellions against British rule were actually Protestant Irish nationalists, although most Irish Protestants opposed separatism. In the Irish Rebellion of 1798, Catholics and Presbyterians, who were not part of the establishedChurch of Ireland, found common cause.
Irish Catholics are found in many countries around the world, especially in the Anglosphere. Emigration exponentially increased due to the Great Famine which lasted from 1845 to 1852. In the United States, anti-Irish sentiment and anti-Catholicism was espoused by the Know Nothing movement of the 1850s and other 19th-century anti-Catholic and anti-Irish organizations. By the 20th century, Irish Catholics were well established in the United States and today they are fully-integrated into mainstream American society.
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This article is about the cultural group For the newspaper see The Irish Catholic Irish Catholics Irish Caitlicigh na hEireann are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland 12 13 whose members are both Catholic and Irish They have a large diaspora which includes over 36 million American citizens 14 and over 14 million British citizens a quarter of the British population 15 Irish Roman CatholicsCeltic crossTotal population4 6 million Ireland 55 60 million notably in Canada and the Eastern and Central United States Regions with significant populationsRepublic of Ireland4 000 000Northern Ireland750 000United States 20 000 000 1 2 Canada5 000 000 3 United Kingdom15 000 000 4 failed verification Australia7 000 000 5 6 Argentina500 000 1 000 000 7 8 New Zealand especially in Te Tai Poutini 9 600 000 10 France15 000 11 LanguagesEnglish Irish American British Australian and New Zealander Irish primarily Ireland Spanish Argentine and Mexican and French Metropolitan French ReligionCatholic ChristianityRelated ethnic groupsIrish people Irish diaspora Irish Travellers Irish Americans Irish Canadians Irish Australians Irish New Zealanders Irish Britons Irish Argentines Irish Mexicans Irish French Contents 1 Overview and history 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 4 1 Catholic Irish 5 External linksOverview and history EditDivisions between Irish Roman Catholics and Irish Protestants played a major role in the history of Ireland from the 16th century to the 20th century especially during the Home Rule Crisis and the Troubles While religion broadly marks the delineation of these divisions the contentions were primarily political and they were also related to access to power For example while the majority of Irish Catholics had an identity which was independent from Britain s identity and were excluded from power because they were Catholic a number of the instigators of rebellions against British rule were actually Protestant Irish nationalists although most Irish Protestants opposed separatism In the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Catholics and Presbyterians who were not part of the established Church of Ireland found common cause Irish Catholics are found in many countries around the world especially in the Anglosphere Emigration exponentially increased due to the Great Famine which lasted from 1845 to 1852 In the United States anti Irish sentiment and anti Catholicism was espoused by the Know Nothing movement of the 1850s and other 19th century anti Catholic and anti Irish organizations By the 20th century Irish Catholics were well established in the United States and today they are fully integrated into mainstream American society See also EditCatholic Church in Ireland Celtic Christianity Cultural Christians Irish Americans Scotch Irish Americans Irish migration to Britain Irish Canadians Irish Newfoundlanders Irish Quebecers Irish Scottish people Irish Australians Irreligion in the Republic of Ireland Penal Laws Religion in Northern Ireland Religion in the Republic of Ireland Saint Patrick s Day Ulster Protestants Ulster Scots peopleReferences Edit Selected Social Characteristics in the United States DP02 2013 American Community Survey 1 Year Estimates U S Census Bureau Archived from the original on February 12 2020 Retrieved December 11 2014 Carroll Michael P Winter 2006 How the Irish Became Protestant in America Religion and American Culture University of California Press 16 1 25 54 doi 10 1525 rac 2006 16 1 25 JSTOR 10 1525 rac 2006 16 1 25 S2CID 145240474 Of the 1 495 respondents who identified themselves as Irish 51 percent were Protestant and 36 percent were Catholic Ethnic Origin 264 Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses 3 Generation Status 4 Age Groups 10 and Sex 3 for the Population in Private Households of Canada Provinces Territories Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations 2011 National Household Survey Statistics Canada 2011 Archived from the original on 2019 12 09 Retrieved 2019 06 03 One in four Britons claim Irish roots BBC News March 16 2001 Archived from the original on November 22 2021 Retrieved June 3 2019 Ancestry Information Operations Unlimited Company Press Release www ancestryeurope lu Archived from the original on 7 September 2017 Retrieved 11 October 2017 Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern T D announces Grants to Irish Community Organisations in the Southern Hemisphere Press release Department of Foreign Affairs 26 September 2007 Archived from the original on 28 July 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2019 Western People Flying the Irish flag in Argentina Western People March 14 2007 Archived from the original on December 18 2007 Retrieved June 2 2019 IrishAboard com Irish Social Networking Worldwide www irishaboard com permanent dead link Story Irish Te Ara The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Archived from the original on 2021 11 26 Retrieved 2021 11 26 The Irish in New Zealand Historical Contexts and Perspectives Brian Easton www eastonbh Archived from the original on 2020 02 17 Retrieved 2019 06 03 Prếsentation de l Irlande France Diplomatie Ministḕre de l Europe des Affaires ễtrangễres permanent dead link Evans Jocelyn Tonge Jonathan 2013 Catholic Irish and Nationalist evaluating the importance of ethno national and ethno religious variables in determining nationalist political allegiance in Northern Ireland Nations and Nationalism 19 2 357 375 doi 10 1111 nana 12005 Nicolson Murray W Irish Tridentine Catholicism in Victorian Toronto Vessel for Ethno religious Persistence PDF CCHA Study Sessions 50 1983 415 436 Archived PDF from the original on 2021 11 01 Retrieved 2017 07 02 via University of Manitoba U S Census U S Census Bureau Archived from the original on 11 February 2020 Retrieved 13 April 2008 One in four Britons claim Irish roots BBC News BBC 16 March 2001 Retrieved 7 December 2020 ISBN 0 8132 0896 3 ISBN 978 0 8132 0896 1Further reading EditCatholic Irish Edit Anbinder Tyler 2002 Five Points The Nineteenth Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance Stole Elections and Became the World s Most Notorious Slum New York Plume ISBN 0 452 28361 2 Anbinder Tyler Moving beyond Rags to Riches New York s Irish Famine Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts Journal of American History 99 December 2012 741 70 Barr Colin 2020 Ireland s Empire The Roman Catholic Church in the English Speaking World 1829 1914 Cambridge Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781139644327 Bayor Ronald Meagher Timothy eds 1997 The New York Irish Baltimore University of Johns Hopkins Press ISBN 0 8018 5764 3 Blessing Patrick J 1992 The Irish in America A Guide to the Literature and the Manuscript Editions Washington D C Catholic University of America Press ISBN 0 8132 0731 2 Clark Dennis 1982 The Irish in Philadelphia Ten Generations of Urban Experience 2nd Ed Philadelphia Temple University Press ISBN 0 87722 227 4 English T J 2005 Paddy Whacked The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster New York ReganBooks ISBN 0 06 059002 5 Ebest Ron The Irish Catholic Schooling of James T Farrell 1914 23 Eire Ireland 30 4 1995 18 32 excerpt Erie Steven P 1988 Rainbow s End Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics 1840 1985 Berkeley California University of California Press ISBN 0 520 07183 2 Fanning Charles and Ellen Skerrett James T Farrell and Washington Park The Novel as Social History Chicago History 8 1979 80 91 French John Irish American Identity Memory and Americanism During the Eras of the Civil War and First World War PhD Dissertation Marquette University 2012 Online Gleeson David T The Green and the Gray The Irish in the Confederate States of America U of North Carolina Press 2013 online review Ignatiev Noel 1996 How the Irish Became White New York Routledge ISBN 0 415 91825 1 Jensen Richard 2002 No Irish Need Apply A Myth of Victimization Journal of Social History 36 2 pp 405 429 online Archived 2005 02 08 at the Wayback Machine Kenny Kevin Abraham Lincoln and the American Irish 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H 1995 The Boston Irish A Political History Old Saybrook Connecticut Konecky amp Konecky ISBN 978 1 56852 620 1 O Donnell L A 1997 Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America A Biographical Study Westport Connecticut Greenwood Press Rogers James Silas and Matthew J O Brien eds After the Flood Irish America 1945 1960 2009 Specialized essays by scholars Sim David 2013 A Union Forever The Irish Question and US Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age Cornell University Press 2013 The Irish Cultural Political Social and Religious Heritages Ireland The Rise of Irish Nationalism 1801 1850 Emigrants and Immigrants Communities in Conflict American Nativists and Irish Catholics Irish American Politics Irish America and the Course of Irish Nationalism From Ghetto to Suburbs From Someplace to Noplace EndnotesExternal links EditLibrary of Congress Archived 2011 08 18 at the Wayback Machine The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America describes the book ISBN 0 8132 0896 3 On Irish Catholics of Australia 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