On 9 December, a Protestant mob stormed Dover Castle, where the Catholic Sir Edward Hales was Governor, and seized it.
Protestant mobs attacked and killed at least twenty-two people.
However, during a visit to Belfast, he witnesses his elderly uncle, a Catholic priest, being assaulted by a Protestant mob.
As the marchers neared their destination they were attacked by a Protestant mob.
Bloody Monday was August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky, an election day, when Protestant mobs attacked Irish Catholic neighborhoods.
Their skilful propaganda set about blackening the image of Special Constables, trying to identify them with the worst elements of the Protestant mobs in Belfast.
But the general case of a partisan force co-operating with Protestant mobs to attack Catholic people is devoid of substance, and we reject it utterly.
Every morning this week, the broken glass and burned-out cars have quickly disappeared from the streets here after the previous night's rioting by Protestant mobs.
In 1780 Mansfield's house had been firebombed by a Protestant mob because of his judgments in support of rights for Catholics.
During the riot, a convent of Roman Catholic Ursuline nuns was burned down by a Protestant mob.