Protestant Depopulation in County Longford during the Irish Revolution, 1911-1926
Protestant Depopulation in County Longford during the Irish Revolution, 1911-1926
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爱尔兰革命期间朗福德郡新教徒人口减少，1911 年至 1926 年
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10.1093/ehr/ceaa135
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2020
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Coleman M
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近年来，爱尔兰新教少数派在爱尔兰革命期间的经历一直是许多学术和大众辩论的主题。争论的焦点是，在1911年至1926年间，爱尔兰自由邦三分之一的新教徒人口的减少在多大程度上是革命期间的恐吓、宗派主义或种族清洗的结果，或者是长期移民模式和低结婚率和出生率等更世俗因素的结果。根据数字化的人口普查报告和朗福德郡爱尔兰教会、长老会和卫理公会教堂的记录中包含的丰富细节，本文将表明，当采用精确的时间、地区、教派和性别角度时，人口减少的原因得到更好的理解。它将主张更多地接触社会学文献，以更有效地定义革命爱尔兰的宗派主义的含义。它还将颠倒新教徒为什么离开的主要问题，并试图解释为什么留下来的人选择这样做。朗福德县被选为合适的个案研究对象，因为它既受到长期社会经济因素的影响，又受到革命暴力的影响，而且该县的三个新教教派拥有大量的档案，有助于填补1911年至1926年之间15年没有人口普查造成的民事数据空白。这篇文章确定了朗福德目前存在的动态，可以在其他区域背景下探索，以实现对这种人口变化的更广泛的全国性理解。
The experience of the Protestant minority in Ireland during the years of the Irish revolution has been the subject of much academic and popular debate in recent years. At issue is the extent to which the decline by one-third of the Protestant population of the Irish Free State between 1911 and 1926 was a result either of intimidation, sectarianism or ethnic cleansing during the revolution itself, or of more mundane factors such as long-term patterns of migration and low marriage and birth rates. Drawing upon digitised census returns and the rich detail contained in the records of the Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches in County Longford, this article will show that the causes of depopulation are better understood when precise chronological, local, denominational and gender perspectives are brought to bear. It will argue for greater engagement with sociological literature to define more effectively the meaning of sectarianism in revolutionary Ireland. It will also invert the principal question of why the Protestants left and seek to explain why those who remained chose to do so. County Longford is chosen as a suitable case-study because it was affected by both long-term socio-economic factors and revolutionary violence, and the three Protestant denominations in the county have extensive archives which help to fill the gap in civil data occasioned by the absence of a census of population for fifteen years between 1911 and 1926. The article identifies dynamics present in Longford that can be explored in other regional contexts to achieve a wider national understanding of this demographic shift.