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Old 06-02-2018, 06:36 PM   #806
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Not sure how you arrived at my wishing to kick Protestanism out of Ireland. In the long history of this thread, I've never said anything anti protestant. If you equate protestantism as a whole with the medieval bigoted views of the Orange Order, then that's your issue.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of organized religion, regardless of the particular flavor.

Actually I consider the Roman Catholic church to be second only to the Crown in the evils inflicted on the Irish people. Work houses for unwed mothers that were basically slave labor camps, brutal orphanages, the wide spread sexual abuse of children to name a few. I only find myself in a Catholic church on the occasion of a funeral of a friend or relative.

Irish Republicanism has never been about religion. As I've posted before, the founding father of Republicanism was a protestant.

A few other examples:

John Graham, George Gilmore, and George Plant were amongst a handful of Protestants who joined the minority Republican Congress and the Irish Republican Army in the 1930s and 1940s.[5] Plant was executed in 1942 by the Irish government for the murder of a suspected informer.[10]

Later figures included Ronnie Bunting of the Irish National Liberation Army and John Turnley of the Irish Independence Party, who were assassinated by the Ulster Defence Association. Bunting was the son of Ronald Bunting, a close associate of Ian Paisley.[11] John Turnley, also killed in 1980, was the Protestant Chairman of the Irish Independence Party and an Anti H-Block campaigner. David Russell was a Protestant Provisional IRA volunteer originally from Ramelton in Donegal and a Presbyterian.

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