Protestants made up 10% of the population of the Irish Free State when it gained independence in 1922. Fast forward to the 2011 census and the figure was a little under half that at 4.27%.

When Carla Hart sends the children out the door of their row house on Cluan Place in a working-class part of East Belfast, she never knows what will fall from the skies. And it’s not just the weather ...

BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for the ...

The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

New census data confirms that the once-dominant Protestants no longer predominate — a demographic change that could open the door to reunification with the rest of Ireland. A man walks past a Catholic ...

Some of the Nationwide programmes over the past year have been a reminder of how much religion has shaped life in Ireland - ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Irish Catholic militants attacked riot police Thursday in a polarized corner of Belfast as the most divisive day on Northern Ireland's calendar reached a typically ugly end ...

The Irish presence in Rhode Island dates from the late 1630s. Most early Irish Rhode Islanders were Protestants — mainly Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians or Anglicans —and those few with Catholic ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were ...

Northern Ireland's 2021 census has shown that for the first time in 101 years of history of the region, 45.7% of the population are Catholic while 43.5% are Protestant. Northern Ireland now has more ...