Anglo-Irish people
 St. Patrick's Saltire is often seen as an emblem of the Anglo-Irish. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Northern Ireland | 407,454 (2011) (Northern Irish Anglicans) (Northern Irish Methodists) (Other Northern Irish Protestants) |
| Republic of Ireland | 177,200 (2018) (Irish Anglicans) (Irish Methodists) (Other Irish Protestants) |
| Languages | |
| English (Hiberno-English, Ulster English) Irish Sign Northern Ireland Sign | |
| Religion | |
| Mainly Anglicanism and Methodism. Minority Congregationalist, Evangelical Protestantism, Pentecostal Christianity, Two by Twos, Christadelphianism, Plymouth Brethren, Exclusive Brethren, Catholic or other Protestant. (see also Religion in Ireland) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| English • Scots • Irish • Anglo-Normans • Anglo-Saxons • Ulster Scots • Ulster Protestants • Welsh | |
langs. Replace with languages.caption. Replace with image_caption.related. Replace with related_groups.rels. Replace with religions.Anglo-Irish people (Irish: Angla-Éireannach) are an ethnic, social and religious grouping consisting mostly of the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Predominantly, the Anglo-Irish belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the established Church of Ireland until 1871 or, to a lesser extent, to one of the English Dissenting Churches, such as Baptists, Presbyterians, the Methodist Church. However, some were Roman Catholics. They often defined themselves simply as "British", or less frequently as "Anglo-Irish", "Irish" or "English". Many became notable as administrators in the British Empire or as senior army and naval officers. The Kingdom of England and Great Britain were in a real union with the Kingdom of Ireland for over a century, before politically uniting into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.
The term is not usually applied to Presbyterians in the province of Ulster, whose ancestry is mostly Lowland Scottish, rather than English or Irish, and who are sometimes identified as Ulster Scots. The Anglo-Irish hold a wide range of political views, with some being outspoken Irish nationalists, but most overall being Unionists. And while most of the Anglo-Irish originated in the English diaspora in Ireland, others were descended from families of the old Gaelic nobility of Ireland.