Why do Irish Catholics still hate protestants?

Answer 1

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The U.S. media hasn't taken time to acquaint our short-attention span citizens of the background of the conflict. To listen to the media the only thing different is their religion prompting Americans to think the conflict is solely about religion. This is an unresolved colonial situation. The Protestants and Catholics differ in religion, ethnicity, historical experiences, and, at one time, language. The Protestants are descended from Scottish and English colonists introduced in the early 1600s to pacify the "Wild Irish" and have maintained a separate identity.

Incidentally, a recent survey indicated that most Protestants in N.I. consider themselves British rather than Irish. So the term Irish Protestant may not apply to the North, although it could refer to a Protestant in the Irish Republic. Americans referring to Protestants in the North as "Irish Protestants" is not going to bring these groups closer.

Answer 2

All Irish Catholics do not hate protestants, and besides it is not a religious thing, it is a cultural thing. The Irish (who were all Catholic) were invaded by England (which was protestant) and Catholicism was outlawed, they were called the penal laws, and they were VERY oppressive. The English subjected the Irish Catholics to centuries of bitter poverty and oppression in their own native land. The hate that is still there is mostly a cultural heritage from previous centuries of abuse.

Answer 3

It is wrong to say Irish Catholics hate Irish Protestants. This is just one of many stereotypes and misconceptions about Ireland. The average Irish Catholic has no hatred of the average Irish Protestant, and vice versa. For historic reasons of how Protestantism came to Ireland and how some Protestants were given more powers and rights by Britain within Ireland, problems did occur, which naturally resulted in rebellions from those that were oppressed. This happened within a minority and within certain areas, most notably in what is now Northern Ireland. The problems there have been complex and are not just down to what religion people are, but due to a much broader range of issues which would be difficult to go into details of here. Within Northern Ireland there are more animosities between Catholics and Protestants than in the rest of Ireland, but even in Northern Ireland many Catholics and Protestants get on with their daily lives having no problems with each other.

Answer 4

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Answer from a Catholic descended from the IrishI used to live in Ireland, we don't hate each other. The long standing feud was between the Irish who were disposed of their land, and the British, who came into Ireland as Lords to take the Irish land, their heritage, their religion, even their language and to impose their own way of life on their new, indentured slaves. The Irish all happened to be Catholic, and the British all happened to be protestant, but the disagreement, if we can use a polite term, was between the Irish residents, and the British invaders. The disagreement was handed down the generations so that, today, it is between the descendants of those original British and the descendants of the native Irish.