EXPERIENCE OF PROTESTANT IRISH IMMIGRANTS

Question 1

HIGHLY EDUCATED

Answer 1

A: IP more highly educated than their counterparts=more opportunities for employment in S industries like weaving

B: skills highly sought after, S companies - Bairds advertised jobs in Belfast + offered skilled I workers employment, home + schooling = for their children

C:POS+ experience, considerably easier than IC (Irish Catholics), able to make decent living

Question 2

ASSIMILATION

Answer 2

A: easy life=shared religion, therefore didn’t face discrimination like IC did

B:more welcomed into workplace + establishment of Orange Order (OO)was tolerated well by Scots

C:POS+ experience=OO formed to celebrate distinct identity=became important weddings+ funerals to help maintain identity

Question 3

IDENTITY

Answer 3

A:able to obtain work, get on well w/ S, also maintained identity=forming orange order

B:in 1857=300 orange men were attacked by Catholics in Airdrie when returning from orange march

C:heightened tensions w/ IC + sectarian issues that followed = NEG- experience