On the Margin: A Memoir - Paperbackby Robin Bury (Author) Protestants have had a tradition of keeping their heads down since before Irish independence in 1922, and still have. Most of them have gone into Omert?. They had their own social networks, businesses, large manufacturing companies like Guinness and Jamieson Whiskey and schools and hospitals. But a few historians have taken the position that Southern Protestant citizenship has been indulged, rather than being a matter of right,