We knew that already. The overall religion numbers have been available since the first 1926 results were released.
Recent northern Irish censuses shows a higher percentage of older Protestants who were born before 1926 in the south than younger southern born people
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Im amazed other news outlets haven’t picked up on this breaking news
feedthebear on
I’m fairly sure the entire population dropped between 1911 and 1926.
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Well lots of them were involved in the British state administration or were soldiers so they obviously moved. Also if you want to be British then you would probably move anyway, that makes sense to me.
Catholic large families are also a big factor in this.
Plenty of Protestants stayed and attacks were very rare.
Etxegaragar on
Also dropping the ‘O’ in the case of my families surname and Irish to English as first language. Fascinating
FewHeat1231 on
Is it really such a surprise that a group that generally favoured a continuation of the Union were more inclined to leave for Northern Ireland or Great Britain after the Irish Free State was established? They don’t need to have been actively discriminated against to feel they alienated from the new zeitgeist and government.
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Im sure a decent amount wanted to go to NI where they could easily get a job, house and treat half the population as a 2nd class citizen.
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We knew that already. The overall religion numbers have been available since the first 1926 results were released.
Recent northern Irish censuses shows a higher percentage of older Protestants who were born before 1926 in the south than younger southern born people
Im amazed other news outlets haven’t picked up on this breaking news
I’m fairly sure the entire population dropped between 1911 and 1926.
Well lots of them were involved in the British state administration or were soldiers so they obviously moved. Also if you want to be British then you would probably move anyway, that makes sense to me.
Catholic large families are also a big factor in this.
Plenty of Protestants stayed and attacks were very rare.
Also dropping the ‘O’ in the case of my families surname and Irish to English as first language. Fascinating
Is it really such a surprise that a group that generally favoured a continuation of the Union were more inclined to leave for Northern Ireland or Great Britain after the Irish Free State was established? They don’t need to have been actively discriminated against to feel they alienated from the new zeitgeist and government.
Im sure a decent amount wanted to go to NI where they could easily get a job, house and treat half the population as a 2nd class citizen.