"To break the connection with England...and to assert the independence of my country - these were my objects. To...substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter - these were my means. "With those words, a
Protestant formed a political movement that exists to this day. Unfortunately the two sides of the conflict and bystanders tend to put the camps into Catholic and Protestant and assume that all Protestants must of been loyalists.
The truth could not be farther. Protestants continually supported, and support, Ireland’s political freedom. Their memory lives on in the hearts of those who remember.
Note that we are not a sectarian group; therefore Irish republicans and nationalists of all religions are welcome. We are for the purposes of remembering those of the Protestant faith and heritage who made a difference for Ireland.
The Brave Protestant Men
So here’s to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For those brave United Irishmen
Wolfe Tone
Thomas Davis
Thomas Russell
John Napper Tandy
Henry McCracken
William Drennan
Lord Edward FitzGerald
Charles Stewart Parnell
Rev. James Porter
Rev. Thomas Ledlie Birch
Thomas Emmet
Robert Emmet
Sir Roger Casement
Captain Jack White
William Nelson
Sean Lester
Ernest Blythe
Bulmer Hobson
John Stephenson
Betsy Gray
James Hope
Erskine Childers
Joseph Holt
Jonah Barrington
George Berkeley
John Foster
Ivan Cooper
John Curran
Hamilton Rowan
Edmund Burke
Charles O’Conor
Thomas Newenham
John Parnell
Athony Malone
William Drennan
Samuel Nielson
Arthur Connor
Thomas Moore
Russel Stone
Isaac Butt
William Thompson
William Dowdall
John Mitchel
Thomas Russell
William Sinclair
Henry Haslett
Gilbert McIlveen
William Simms
Robert Simms
Thomas McCabe
Thomas Pearce
James Stephens
George Brendan Nolan
Cathal Brugha
Eamonn Duggan
Laurence Nugent
Billy Leonard
Rodai Mhic Corlaí
Michael Dwyer
Thomas Muir
Valentine Brown Lawless
John Kelly
Anthony Perry
Liam O Comain
Rob McTier
James Wilson
James Hope
William Orr
Jack Beattie
Sam Kyle
William McMullen
James Baird
John Hanna
Victor Halley
Earnán de Blaghd
Dubhghlas de hÍde
John Graham
George Plant
Noel Lyttle
John Turnley
Martin Mansergh
Thomas Devin Reilly
Anthony Perry
James Orr
John Allen
John Martin
Sean Heuston
Edward Marcus Despard
Seán Eoghain Ui Thuathalláin
Denis Cashman
Ronnie Bunting
George Brendan Nolan
Stephen Fuller
Laurence Nugent
Martin Savage
Seumas Robinson
Feargus Edward O’Connor
Albert McConnell
William Steel Dickson
Mary Ann McCracken
Mabel Washington McConnell
William "Staker" Wallace
James Stephens
Frank Stagg
Emmet Stagg
Rev Daniel Gunn Brown
William Kirk
Stephen Gwyn
Jeremiah Jordan
J. G. Swift MacNeill
James Maguire
Pierce O'Mahony
John Pinkerton
Samuel Young
Horace Plunkett
Joseph Mary Plunkett
Jack Beattie
Sam Kyle
William McMullen
James Baird
John Hanna
Victory Halley
Robert Barton
Ernest Blythe
Mabel McConville
Muriel Gifford
Grace Gifford
Maude Gonne
Countess Markiewicz
Lillie Connolly
Charlotte Despard
Charles Bewley
John Graham
George Plant
John Turnley
William Drennan
Seymour Crawford
John McDonald
George Gilmore
Bagenal Harvey
Colonel Harvey Bicker
Dr Trevor Morrow
Rev James Alexander Hamilton Irwin
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett
Rev JB Armour
Jim White
Irene Andrews
William Smith O’Brien
Robiard Ó Flionn
Sylvia Lynd
William Steele
"Och, Paddies, my hearties, have done wid your parties. Let min of all creeds and profissions agree. If Orange and Green min, no longer were seen, min. Och, naboclis, how aisy ould Ireland we’d free."
--James Hope, United Irishmen