12th July re-enactment of the Boyne in Bangor, 2015. From the BBC |
For those branches that remained, and there were not many, it would seem that some took the pragmatic option of adopting the Protestant faith, and switching their allegiance to the English establishment, sincerely or otherwise. Indeed, the foundation of The Church of Ireland, represented a specific compromise or ruse intended to achieve exactly this through developing a new establishment that was Protestant in theory, but maintained favoured elements of Catholic observance along with an Irish name. It had taken a good five hundred years from when they first arrived, but from now on they were to behave themselves as good and loyal participants in the Protestant Ascendancy. The tale will be picked up in Downpatrick.
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