Balanced treatment of Ulster history

[Lallans]

Gaelic Irish that converted to become protestants mainly joined the Church of Ireland, which is a branch of the Anglican church, aka Episcopalian. This was the established church. OTOH, protestant Ulster Scots were and are mostly Presbyterian, so it's not all that hard to disambiguate two groups that attended different churches. The main reason for conversion was to overcome bans on Catholics buying land and/or joining the learned professions, which were repealed in the first half of the 19th century.

Non-Anglicans and particularly Presbyterians were as persecuted as Catholics in the early days of the Plantation and at times more so, and more violently. The body count of the day shows that. Also, the non-catholic Reillys, Farrells, and O'Neils in my extended family might take issue with your statement regarding the reason their ancestors became protestant- you might find they had the same reasons that anyone did. And there are plenty in my family on this side of the Atlantic that went from anglican to catholic. Someday perhaps there will just be people in NI and they will see themselves that way. Slainte!