# Flag protests in Northern Ireland.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [December 8, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437 "2012-12-08T18:37:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437/81 "2013-01-13T18:34:39Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#):
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> Yes, from listening to my Irish American coworkers, I did get the feeling that it was mostly a class thing where West Brit = posh. I also got the message that (in the ROI) not all West Brits are Protestant, **but all Protestants are West Brits**. (Funny how I keep bumping into the NI conflict, I used to socialize with Orangemen and these days more with Irish-American republicans)
Highlighted part of your quoted text is incorrect, not all Protestants in the Republic Of Ireland are West Brits. I’m not even sure if you could say a majority are. Of my Protestant friends and acquaintances in the Republic Of Ireland, I’d say one conforms to that stereotype absolutely, hailing from South Dublin, posh as can be and with a healthy disdain for Gaelic Football, the Irish language etc. The rest of them not so much, in fact one is a fairly fervent republican. The only reason I know most of them are Protestant is because they told me, otherwise I would have had to throw holy water over them to check.
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437/82 "2013-01-14T15:10:55Z")
Interesting article on the views of young loyalists: [Belfast: 'It's not just the flag. They want to take everything British away' | Belfast | The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/13/belfast-protest-flag-young-loyalists)
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437/83 "2013-01-15T09:42:26Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#):
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> Interesting article on the views of young loyalists: [Belfast: 'It's not just the flag. They want to take everything British away' | Belfast | The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/13/belfast-protest-flag-young-loyalists)
Thanks for that. Note how British identity, “Britishness” appears in quote after quote.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437/84 "2013-01-16T00:38:11Z")
Rent-or-download [_The Commitments._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commitments) The ending will tell you all you need to know about Irish history. 😉
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437/85 "2013-01-16T02:35:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Rent-or-download [_The Commitments._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commitments) The ending will tell you all you need to know about Irish history. 😉
BrainGlutton, with all due respect, what has your post go to do with the rest of this thread?
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-protests-in-northern-ireland/643437/86 "2013-01-16T06:06:19Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#):
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> BrainGlutton, with all due respect, what has your post go to do with the rest of this thread?
Everything.
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