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Introduction Introduction
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Setting the Scene Setting the Scene
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Defining Identity at Independence Defining Identity at Independence
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Preservation of a Protestant Identity in a Catholic State, 1920s–1950s Preservation of a Protestant Identity in a Catholic State, 1920s–1950s
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Creating New and Different Identities Creating New and Different Identities
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Constructing an Accommodation Constructing an Accommodation
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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13 Changing Protestant Identity in Southern Ireland, 1922–1970s
Get accessIan d’Alton is a historian of southern Irish Protestantism, author of Protestant Society and Politics in Cork, 1812–1844 (Cork University Press, 1980). He jointly edited Protestant and Irish: The Minority’s Search for Place in Independent Ireland (Cork University Press, 2019). Recipient of the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize in 1972 he was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Liverpool’s Institute for Irish Studies 2011–12 and Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College and Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, Cambridge, 2014. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
This chapter examines how the Protestant minority, beached in an overwhelmingly Catholic state after independence, had to adapt its identity and values to the new order. The principal features of Protestant demography, social economy, and denominational makeup form the background against which ‘dual loyalty’ became a method of coping. Britishness was mediated principally through cultural royalism and connectivity with Empire and the wider Protestant world. Irishness was emphasized by claiming the Church of Ireland’s descent from St Patrick. Protestants withdrew into ghettos to protect their privileges and avoid mixed marriages. Politically powerless, they reinvented their place in Irish life as preceptors of moral and civic values. Despite an inherent anti-Catholicism, conservative Protestantism was more in tune with many of the values of Catholic Ireland than often thought. All this, together with the ecumenical movement from the 1960s, allowed a common citizenship to emerge, largely resolving the identity issue.
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