Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1998: The Mote and the BeamAnti Catholicism forms part of the dynamics to Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the self defining identity of certain Protestants. However, anti Catholicism is as much a sociology process as a theological dispute. It was given a Scriptural underpinning in the history of Protestant Catholic relations in Ireland, and wider British Irish relations, in order to reinforce social divisions between the religious communities and to offer a