Ulster Protestants
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Ulster Protestants are an ethnoreligious group in the Irish province of Ulster, where they make up about 43.5% of the population. Most Ulster Protestants are descendants of settlers who arrived from G
Changes in distribution of Irish Protestants, 1861–2011
Percentage of Protestants in each electoral division in Ulster, based on census figures from 2001 (UK) and 2006 (ROI). 0-10% dark green, 10-30% mid-green, 30-50% light green, 50-70% light orange, 70-90% mid-orange, 90-100% dark orange.
Ulster loyalism
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Ulster loyalism is a strand of Ulster unionism associated with working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland. Like other unionists, loyalists support the continued existence of Northern Ireland
Ulster Protestants
…that (in Ulster) has been divided by some into two camps; Ulster British, who are attached to the United Kingdom and identify primarily as British; and Ulster loyalists, whose politics are primarily ethnic, prioritising their Ulster Protestantism above their British identity. The Loyal Orders, which include the Orange…
The Union Flag, Ulster Banner and Orange Order flags are often flown by loyalists in Northern Ireland.
Ulster Volunteers in Belfast c. 1914
Loyalist graffiti and banner on a building in a side street off the Shankill Road, Belfast (1970)
A loyalist marching band on The Twelfth, 2011