The Church of Ireland Population in County Cork, 1911 - 1926
Keywords:
cork, Protestantism, religion, history, irelandAbstract
The Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 effectively divided the island into two self-governing states. It created two majorities but more importantly it created two minorities. Roman Catholics comprised an overwhelming majority in the Free State, but they formed a significant minority in Northern Ireland. The much more heterogenous Protestant population constituted sixty-six per cent of the Northern Irish population and a tiny minority of five per cent in the Free State. The fate of the northern minority has generated an extensive literature dealing with various aspects of that community's problems (Rolston et al, 1983). However, the dearth of material on the southern minority is in itself significant. It may be both a reflection of the southern majority's disinterest in the Protestant minority, and willingness by the southern minority itself not to "cause waves" within the southern state. Thus, the primary purpose of this paper is to examine the geographical dimensions of the reaction of the Protestant population in County Cork to the changing constitutional relationship between Ireland and Britain in the early years of this century.
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