Kinda defeats your whole theory Med, Especially when Protestants were some founding members of these ''prod killer'' groups. Maybe if you had went to a proper school you'ld have learned proper history not some twisted orange tinted version
So they're lying then BillyBhoy? It's just a coincidence that the Protestant population decreased 28% in a few years?
Why can't folk see the difference between 'religion' & political beliefs?? Not defending the murder of anyone just wish people would get their facts right if they are gonna talk about something.
"The numerical decline between 1911 and 1926 of the Protestant (and mostly unionist) community in Cork, and indeed throughout Southern Ireland, is startling. The historian Hart puts the level of Protestant decline during this period at no less than 34% (the Roman Catholic population declined by merely 2%) and comments that" It is difficult to argue with Hart’s assessment that this population decline is unique in British history – representing “the only example of the mass displacement of a native ethnic group within the British Isles since the 17th century” Precise figures for the decline of Southern Protestantism can be seen by an examination of the 1926 census of Saorstat Eireann (the Irish Free State): Church of Ireland Presbyterian Methodists Baptists Total “Others” Roman Catholics 1911 249,535 45,486 16,440 1,588 327,179 2,812,509 1926 164,215 32,429 10,663 717 220,723 2,751,269 % Decline -34.2% -28.7% -35.1% -54.8% -32.5% -2.2% The decline in Cork was even more marked than in the rest of Southern Ireland: Church of Ireland Presbyterian Methodists Baptists Total “Others” Roman Catholics % Decline across SI -34.2% -28.7% -35.1% -54.8% -32.5% -2.2% % Decline in Cork Co Borough -52.8% -61.6% -38.7% N/A -49.8% +9.2% % Decline in Cork County -40% -54.9% -40.4% N/A -40% -6.0% A closer examination of the census reveals that the pattern of decline was broadly similar across the county, although Protestants in Skibbereen escaped significantly more lightly than Protestants elsewhere, losing 1 in 3 of their number during the period: Roman Catholics Others; Cork County Borough* +9.2% -49.8% Queenstown* -6.5% -54.9% Youghal* +0.5% -57% Mallow* +7.5% -54% Bandon* +0.9% -45.5% Middleton -12.4% -59% Bantry -11.1% -52.2% Skibbereen* -10.4% -33.2%
When the first world war was on and a new Sectarian state was set up nearby that they would've moved to shortly after a supremacist state had been disassembled and they would lose their position in the new Free State? No, it's not a coincidence. Of course, you could play the idiot and try to pretend it was genocide but saying population change = pogrom is beyond ******ed. Incidentally, have a read of the rest of the site you copied that from - reform.org Zealots of the worst kind
Notice the word mostly. That would suggest that Protestants were murdered or attacked simply because of their religion.
the word "mostly" on a Protestant extremist website - is that the best you can do. In South Africa, since apartheid, the white population has decreased by over 20% - this must mean that they're either being discriminated against, slaughtered or both, eh?
No Paddy, not a coincidence. The fact that the landed gentry were by and large from the Protestant community saw that when they lost power, they lost their sway. It was assumed that these killings were sectarian. It was assumed wrong. do you want to tell everyone what the IRA did to protect wirking class protestants in Cork in case these things were sectarian? Or shall i do that? You can have the glory if you like?
Funny how so many people on here try and legitimise the extermination of a community by saying it wasn't religious it was political.
Paddy, if the point of this is to make the free state look like a bad place for protestants, i have a genuine real example that would support that. This aint it. Would you like to know it?
The IRA whose top men were from that community Medro youre better off vanishing like yesterday kid, this isnt going well for you.
Great input. BillyBhoy in saying thanks to the IRA shocker. Maybe I should clear it with you the next time I take a half day to get my hall painted.
As good an input as you constantly saying the same thing over & over & over & over & over & over again & ignoring anybody elses point of view.
Half a day to paint a hall if you can piss you can paint ffs. Or was it not emulsion you were at, were you painting a mural of king billy carrying neil lennons head up to the church at drumcree ?
Yeah. Don't how big your house is, nor do I care but it takes hours to paint mine. No I wasn't painting a mural I was painting my hall. Good joke though.<tumbleweed>
you seen my house on the post your house thread anyhow back to the topic of you being a thick bigot , you sir are a thick bigot
