Abstract
The Protestants in the Republic of Ireland are a minority group constituting less than 5% of the national population. This minority, numbering about 120,000 persons, is divided amongst membership of the Church of Ireland (3.7%), the Presbyterians (0.7%), the Methodists (0,2%), and other denominations. Only in Dublin (where Protestants now represent 9% of the city's population) are numbers rising, a reflection of the general drift from country to town living. In the sparsely populated rural provinces of Munster and Connacht there are only light concentrations although Protestant enclaves are found in Cork City and in County Donegal, the most north-westerly part of the Republic. On the whole, however, the Protestant population is diminishing. School attendance by the Protestant, as well as by the majority Catholic population, is governed by the provisions of Article 42 of the Constitution of Ireland, 1937. This rules that:
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