Ulster Protestants

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Ulster Protestants are a predominantly unionist and historically British-identifying community in the north of Ireland, closely associated with Protestant denominations and central to the region’s political and cultural conflicts.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural community
ethno‑religious group
religious community
ancestry English settlers
Scottish settlers
associatedPoliticalParties Democratic Unionist Party
Ulster Unionist Party
associatedWith Church of Ireland
Methodist Church in Ireland
Presbyterian Church in Ireland
centralTo The Troubles
politics of Northern Ireland
commemorates Battle of the Boyne
William III of England
surface form: William III of Orange
countryContext Ireland
United Kingdom
culturalPractice Orange parades
marching band tradition
culturalSymbol Orange Order
Twelfth of July parades
Ulster Banner
Union Flag
surface form: Union Jack
demographicMajorityIn Northern Ireland
surface form: Northern Ireland (20th century)
historicalEventInvolving Third Home Rule Bill
surface form: Home Rule crisis

Ulster Covenant
partition of Ireland
historicalOrigin Plantation of Ulster
historicalOriginPeriod 17th century
historicalRole support for the British state in Ireland
identityIssue contested national identity in Northern Ireland
inConflictWith Irish Catholics in Ulster
language English
Scots
surface form: Ulster Scots
majorDenominations Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism

Methodism
Presbyterianism
minorityNationalIdentity Irish
nationalIdentity British
Northern Ireland
surface form: Northern Irish
opposedTo Irish nationalism
Irish republicanism
paramilitaryAssociations Ulster Defence Association
Ulster Volunteer Force
politicalOrientation loyalist
unionist
region Northern Ireland
Ulster
religion Protestantism
supports union with Great Britain

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Battle of the Bogside involvesEthnicGroup Ulster Protestants
Red Hand Commando ethnicCommunity Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster Protestant
Williamite War in Ireland WilliamiteSupportBase Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Irish Protestants
Irish Catholics historicallyContrastedWith Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster unionists
Williamites supportedBy Ulster Protestants
Peter Robinson ethnicGroup Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster Protestant
Ulster Political Research Group associatedMovement Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster loyalist movement
David Trimble ethnicGroup Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster Protestant
Basil Brooke ethnicGroup Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster Protestant
Ulster Workers' Council movement Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster loyalist movement
Red Hand of Ulster usedBy Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots community
Rhonda Paisley ethnicGroup Ulster Protestants
this entity surface form: Ulster Protestant