Ireland and England’s Relationship

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but in the rest of the country, the majority of the Irish were Catholic. (Document 9) This caused clashes with England, which was a Protestant country at the time. William J. Flynn argued that Protestantism in Ireland would die out eventually, like other national minorities. (Document 11) William Bulfin believed that the hostility toward Catholicism from Protestants wasn’t something intentional, just passed down from parent to child and that Ireland would eventually “heal” Ireland from the Protestants’ attitude. (Document 10) According to Document 4, the English viewed the Irish Catholic people as immoral for worshipping the Pope, who they believed was “corrupting priesthood”. They believed that only the gospel could save the Irish from themselves and that Catholicism was the “root of Irish misery”. (Document 4)

Nationalism, too, had a play in the feud. As well as being politically separated from England, the Irish wanted to be separated culturally as well. The daughters of ...

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