The whole rationale for the Nine Years’ War had in a sense been religion, and that the Pope had been drawn in by Hugh O’Neill as part of a wide-scale European pattern to this war, so that by the early 17th century, the way in which society broke down in Ulster was not so much natives versus newcomers as almost Protestants versus Catholics. And at least some of those native Irish who anglicise become Protestants and are accepted within that world. The other interesting development of course in that world is that despite these tensions, these religious tensions which are very, very real, to the point where Protestants regard the Pope as Anti-Christ, where they are convinced the last days are coming, where they think, you know, there is going to be a great battle between good and evil - within that sort of world they managed to get on with their Catholic neighbours. And, in 1641, one Protestant from Armagh says there were no differences between Protestants and Catholics except that one went to Mass on Sunday morning and one went to Service. So that, despite these very real tensions, very real religious tensions, there are accommodations found, ways of, if you like, muddling on - not necessarily one group taking over the other or even one group feeling somehow that it can suppress the other - but rather that they find ways of making life possible so that they can live together: the sort of rituals which, I suppose, were developed in Northern Ireland over the years so that society simply did not blow up at regular intervals into period violence; that there were rituals (some of which are reflected in inter-marriage, some of which are reflected in other ways) but there are very clear divisions but those divisions can form accommodations. The problems come of course when those accommodations come under strain, when there are bad harvests, when there are religious tensions between the Presbyterian and the State, when there are economic tensions, when there are political tensions, and that’s exactly what happens in 1641 when the tensions become too great for the accommodations which exist.