Protestant and Irish Nationalists

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Protestant and Irish Republicans
Protestant Irish nationalists are Protestants from Ireland who support a united Ireland, a independent Irish nation. Prior to the creation of the Republic of Ireland, Irish nationalists sought by both constitutional and by physical-force means to sever the Act of Union binding the United Kingdom of grate britain and Ireland. Many of the Irish Nationalists were members of the Protestant faiths.
Protestants and Catholics in Ireland are stereotyped and often misrepresented. Irish Republicans associated exclusively as Roman Catholic, while those Irish people who want to keep a part of Ireland in union with England as exclusively Protestants.
This is a misleading representation of Irish protestant and Irish Catholic history.
Irish Protestants have in played main roles in every Irish attempt for independence from England.
In the 1798 rebellion, it was Irish Protestants who first physically demanded the political Irish Republic.
The influence of Irish Protestant Nationalists during the 19th century were key events towards the 1916 Easter Rising, and proclamation of the first Irish Republic.

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