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 ...

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%.

An anti-Brexit sign is affixed to a pole in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2019 outside the Falls Road offices of Sinn Fein, a left-wing political party pushing for a united Ireland. It is one of ...

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 ...

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – ...

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 ...

The first round of the 2021 Northern Irish census results were released on Sept. 22, and it produced a shocker: Catholics now outnumber Protestants for the first time since the Northern Irish state ...

INSKEEP: And they're moving after last night's bonfires. People built up stacks of fuel, in some cases as tall as a 14-story building, and lit them up. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: It's all part of marching ...

Republicans were trying to create “no go” areas for Protestants in rural parts of Northern Ireland, taoiseach Bertie Ahern ...