🛐 Religion continued

Here's the data on religion since 1861 in the six counties which currently make up Northern Ireland.

'Other' will mostly include some minor Christian denominations as well as other religions. There's no break-down.

Starting in 1861:

🟢 40.94% Catholic
🟠 57.69% Protestant
🟠 1.34% Other
⚪️ .03% Not Stated.

1926 (first census after Northern Ireland was created):

🟢 33.46% Catholic
🟠 62.21% Protestant
🟠 4.15% Other
⚪️ .18% None/Not Stated

1971: First census after The Troubles started (note the big jump in those opting not to state their religion from the previous 1961 census).

🟢 31.45% Catholic
🟠 53.39% Protestant
🟠 5.79% Other
⚪️ 9.38% None/Not Stated

*Note 1: The 1981 Census was subject to a campaign of non-cooperation in some areas, which resulted in a higher than expected figure for 'Not stated'.

*Note 2: In the last three censuses (2001-21), a second religion of upbringing question was also asked. Such figures are not included here.

👥 Ethnic groups

The total population count recorded was 1.9 million with a sparse selection of options for ethnic groups.

Note that aside from Travellers, European peoples are all lumped in together under the category "White" and denied their separate ethnicities while the census differentiates between Pakistanis and Indians.

In England & Wales, the census options for ethnicity include White British, White Irish, White Gypsy/Traveller and White Other. Scotland's census also includes White Scottish and White Polish.

While there's an issue with the 'White' prefix in this categorisation too, it suggests more about the ethnic breakdown. The limited set of options is unique to Northern Ireland and means we can determine little about the question of a border poll.

The results:

🔹 96.69% White or Traveller
🔹 .76% Mixed
🔹 2.69% Other

We can expect that a higher proportion of non-Irish/British people failed to complete the census so bear that in mind.

👥 Ethnic Groups Continued

Belfast has the highest non-European population.

🔹 93.04% White or Traveller.
🔹 1.2% Mixed
🔹 5.76% Other

Fermanagh & Omagh has the lowest non-European population.

🔹 98.54% White or Traveller
🔹 .42% Mixed
🔹 1.04% Other

👶 Country of Birth

🔹 86.5% Northern Ireland
🔹3.83% England
🔹.87% Scotland
🔹.15% Wales
🔹2.21% Ireland

🔴 Total UK or Ireland: 93.47%

🔹 3.54% EU member states.
🔹 .19% Other European countries.

🔴 Total Europe: 3.73%

🔹 .57% Africa
🔹1.54% Middle East & Asia
🔹.43% North America, Central America & Caribbean
🔹.1% South America
🔹.16% Antarctica, Oceania and Other.

🔴 Total Other: 2.8%

Note that country of birth does not equate ethnicity but from this data we can see that 97.2% of the population of Northern Ireland was born in the UK, Ireland & rest of Europe.

0.55% was born in America, Canada, Australia & New Zealand for a new total of 97.75%

We previously learned that 97.45% described themselves as White, Traveller or mixed. Those figures almost match, suggesting there's little non-white immigration from majority white countries.

Note also that Ireland is recorded as 'Republic of Ireland' which is the name of a football team. The Good Friday Agreement was supposed to clear all that up.

👶 Country of Birth Continued

Here's the complete list for Country of Birth in the Northern Ireland census.

Majority Catholic countries are highlighted in blue as there's a question over whether Catholic migration is propping up the current Catholic majority.

Ireland aside where 2.12% of the population of Northern Ireland was born, a further 2.83% were born in Catholic majority countries.

While this doesn't mean they all answered 'Catholic' in the census for religion, they're more likely to.

Meanwhile, 0.94% of the migrant population was born in majority Protestant/Other Christian countries (in yellow).

Like many countries on the list, in Britain where 4.85% of the population in Northern Ireland was born, it's more complicated.

Britain has a high proportion claiming no religion (over half according to the BSA) while 8.6% are Catholic.

While it's arguable that migration is contributing to the Catholic majority, to what extent is unclear, especially as the list groups some countries together.

Birth certificates record the country of birth of both parents.

These are the stats for eleven years of births in Northern Ireland from January 2010 to December 2020. These is not census data. The source is the NISRA.

Births decreased from 25,315 in 2010 to 20,825 in 2020.

🔹 Total births: 261,993.

Here's where the mothers were born themselves:

🔹 82.34% Northern Ireland (215,732).
🔹 4.84% Britain (12,674).
🔹 2.64% Ireland (6,922).
🔹 10.18% elsewhere (26,665).

The figures for fathers are similar, although:

🔹 77.19% were born in Northern Ireland (202,249).
🔹 5.66% were not stated (14,835).

Add those last two figures together and it roughly matches the figure for mothers born in Northern Ireland. All mothers stated their country of birth.

It suggests the higher percentage of mothers born in Northern Ireland over fathers could largely be attributed to the absence of some fathers' details in the birth certs.

Out of interest, here are some UK-wide figures for 2019 (the last year in the data set I was looking at).

Percentage of live births to non-UK born mothers:

🔹 Wales: 12%
🔹 Northern Ireland 13.3%
🔹 Scotland: 17.5%
🔹 England 29.5% (that's 180,370 births in just one year)

Regarding the 13.3% figure above for Northern Ireland, note that 2.61% of the mothers were born in Ireland in 2019.

In comparison, I've mentioned previously that 25% of the mothers who gave birth in Ireland in 2014 were "non-nationals". Not sure if there are more recent stats.

🏳️ National Identity | 2011

The addition of a question on national identity first appeared in the 2011 Northern Ireland census and was prompted by criticism of the limited options in the question on ethnicity, covered here.

However, it was decided to allow respondents to tick more than one box for this question.

Above are the results for 2011:

🔹 25.26% selected only Irish.
🔹 1.06% selected Irish & Northern Irish.

🟢 Total Irish: 26.32%

🔹 39.89% selected only British.
🔹6.17% selected British & Northern Irish.

🟠 Total British: 46.06%.

However:

🔹 20.94% selected only Northern Irish.
🔹 0.66% selected British & Irish
🔹 1.02% selected British & Irish & Northern Irish.
🔹 5% selected Other.

⚪️ Total remainder: 27.62%

🏳️ National Identity | 2021

The census is recorded in Northern Ireland every ten years so 2021 was the second time the question was asked.

Above are the results for 2021:

🔹 29.13% selected only Irish.
🔹 1.76% selected Irish & Northern Irish.

🟢 Total Irish: 30.89%

🔹 31.86% selected British.
🔹 7.95% selected British & Northern Irish.

🟠 Total British: 39.81%.

🔹 19.78% selected Northern Irish only.
🔹 0.62% selected British & Irish
🔹 1.47% British & Irish & Northern Irish.
🔹 7.43% selected Other.

⚪️ Total remainder: 29.3%

🏳️ National Identity

So in the space of ten years:

🔹 The number of people identifying as Irish or Irish & Northern Irish increased 4.57% (from 26.32% to 30.89%).

🔹The number of people identifying as British or British & Northern Irish decreased 6.25% (from 46.06% to 39.81%) although those selecting the latter option increased 1.78%.

🔹 The number selecting Northern Irish Only decreased a little (20.94% in 2011 vs 19.78% in 2021)

🔹 The numbers selecting British & Irish or the full trifecta of British & Irish & Northern Irish increased a little: 1.68% in 2011 vs 2.09% in 2021.

🔹 Those selecting 'Other' increased 2.43% (from 5% in 2011 to 7.43% in 2021). This likely would be explained by immigration mainly.

So the results do suggest there's an increase in the number of people identifying as Irish and a decrease in the number identifying as British which is difficult to explain away by people choosing alternative or additional identifiers.

Peter O'Loughlin has been found safe and well.

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Nobody could have predicted this.

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African man arrested for stealing a kettle from a homeless hunger striker on O'Connell St.

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Chaos in Wicklow Town as Irish asylum policies spiral out of control and onto the streets.
Rival gangs engage in morning street brawl on the streets of Wicklow.
https://westawake.substack.com/p/chaos-in-wicklow-town-as-irish-asylum

James Reynolds condemns the criminal attack on the National Party's 2022 Ard Fheis, an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the event from taking place, and honours the people who held the line, keeping women and children safe.

The far-left in Ireland feel entitled to bludgeon people with hammers in broad daylight. Why? Because the NGO sector and media establishment give it moral sanction.

The same people demand “hate speech” legislation to create a two-tier justice system where they are on top.

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Some of the dirt who attacked the National Party's Ardfheis in Fermanagh. You can see a man on the left in the background carrying a hammer. Another is holding a fire extinguisher. Other weapons not pictured included a broken champagne bottle and a metal bar.

"They may call themselves Republicans but they don't understand the Republic. Some of them may even call themselves Nationalists but they don't understand Nationalism... They have come here in the name of Communism and in the name of Marxism, to carry out the work of International Finance Capital. For it is the role of the modern Left not to lead the revolution of the proletariat anymore but to protect the multinational corporations... We remain loyal to the authentic tradition of Irish Nationalism." nationalparty.ie/join

'While it has been common practice for Leftists to make anonymous and not so anonymous threats in the past against National Party members individually both North and South and to make clear their willingness and intent to use violence to, as they refer to it, “de-platform” opponents, Sunday marks a new departure and a shocking escalation on previous attacks or threats. Undoubtedly if they had succeeded in their intentions there would have been many more serious injuries, and the weaponry employed indicates that lives could have been lost. This was not a political altercation, it was an organised terrorist attack.' https://nationalparty.ie/official-statement-on-the-national-party-2022-ard-fheis