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... Protestant faith . Two distinct and often antagonistic groupings - the indigenous Roman Catholic Irish and the immigrant Protestant English and Scots - date from that period , and they have played a sig- nificant role in molding ...
... Protestant faith . Two distinct and often antagonistic groupings - the indigenous Roman Catholic Irish and the immigrant Protestant English and Scots - date from that period , and they have played a sig- nificant role in molding ...
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... Protestant Church of Ireland , modeled on the Church of England . Scottish set- tlers brought with them the ardent Calvinism that had re- cently established itself in their homeland . Any affinity that Gaelic Irish and Gaelic Scots ...
... Protestant Church of Ireland , modeled on the Church of England . Scottish set- tlers brought with them the ardent Calvinism that had re- cently established itself in their homeland . Any affinity that Gaelic Irish and Gaelic Scots ...
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... Protestant ascendancy . A series of re- bellions in the summer of 1798 - inspired by the high - minded United Irishmen but triggering the sectarian passions of the Catholic peasantry - attracted ineffectual French support and brutal ...
... Protestant ascendancy . A series of re- bellions in the summer of 1798 - inspired by the high - minded United Irishmen but triggering the sectarian passions of the Catholic peasantry - attracted ineffectual French support and brutal ...
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