Partition institutionalized settler-native religious antagonism into a local ethnocratic jurisdiction.

Evidence

What was created, therefore, in Ireland were two “territorial enclosures” – one dominated by Catholics (in the Free State, formerly the Republic of Ireland) and one by Protestants (in Northern Ireland). The latter remained part of a British state that retained the powers of taxation and external relations but devolved the policing and micromanagement of intercommunal antagonism and inequality to a local (Protestant) ethnocratic administration. In sum, the most toxic and antagonistic aspects of the long history of British-Irish relationships – its Protestant settler-Catholic native dimensions – were now contained, deepened, and institutionalized within a small six-county area of approximately 1.5 million people and provided with all the superficial trappings of democratic majority rule. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2221

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the book’s constant finding that sacralized settler-nationalism is institutionalized into constitutional ethnic privilege — here in a European, UK case. — connects to: Britain engineered Irish partition on a sectarian headcount basis. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2220