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L'Ordre d'Orange était / est une association fraternelle secrète, protestante, anticatholique, antifrançais et ultra conservatrice. Le Pontiac en Outaouais fut la première région au Québec où l'Ordre s'est installé. Nous avons trouvé 15... more
Portadown boy Billy Wright is considered to be close to Christ by many in The Province, while most people from The North consider him as the antichrist himself. But who was he really? Who was the man with bible and gun who considered... more
Critique of Partition of Ireland, Ulster Unionist Party, sectarianism. British Labour Party, Tribune Group, Friends of Ireland (contains brief biography of author Geoffery Bing). Improved scan (previous had some torn pages).
Although a small cohort, often deemed insignificant, the Irish in South Australia developed an extensive network of social, business and political connections with the wider colonial society which aided them in their support of the long... more
This study tests observations regarding the dynamics of fraternal organizations in urban and semi-urban Ontario communities against those in a rural settlement. The study focuses on Freemasonic and Orange Lodges that operated in... more
The Orange Order was central to Canadian nativism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Formed in 1795 by Protestants who feared the specter of Catholic influence and political involve- ment in Irish society, the Order... more
In this paper I analyse how connected groups of Irish Protestants in two areas of colonial New South Wales established and maintained an unusually coherent range of ethnic and religious identities. The analysis concentrates on related... more
In this paper, I discuss the recent merging of two Irish traditional performances, the house-visiting tradition of mumming and the competitive tradition of Lambeg drumming, in the Shared Education Program in Northern Ireland. While the... more
Who are the Royal Black Knights? Using primary documents including journals and reports as well as historical writings the book addresses this question. It includes 1925 listing of all 349 Royal Black Preceptories in Canada and... more
This study investigates the organizational makeup of the Orange Order and whether it influences the use of ritualized behaviors that seek to enhance the visibility and power of this group in Northern Ireland. The investigation contributes... more
Who is the Grand Mistress? This book answers this question by providing the details of over fifty years of service beginning in the 1920s of one woman to the Ladies' Benevolent Association of Canada (L.O.B.A.) This woman, Melda Grace... more
Presentation by Brian McConnell on Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association as part of first Diamond Seminar of Orange History & Culture taking place at Sloan's House Museum in Loughgall, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) led to a major realignment in Unionist politics in Northern Ireland. The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), hitherto the dominant force within the Protestant-British tradition, was usurped in electoral... more
This paper looks at Stephen Olbrys Gencarella’s idea of Critical Folklore Studies and its compatibility with cultural sustainability. Gencarella calls for folklorists to tackle hegemonic forms of folklore in an effort to help subaltern... more
'Loyal and True' were words included in the inscription on the headstone of an Orangeman who died in 1894 in Nova Scotia. What did this mean? By the early 1900s there were over 100 Orange Lodges in Nova Scotia from Cape Breton Island in... more
Throughout the province of Nova Scotia and across Canada there are headstones marking graves of members of the Orange Lodge with inscriptions and symbols but none as unique as two in Annapolis County. Nova Scotia. They are found in... more
" Why do people behave the way they do? " Up to now, ritual has been seriously underutilized for studying human behavior, i.e., ritual. The structural ritualization theory attempts to narrow this gap in our understanding of the social... more
This paper addresses concepts of modernity in the vernacular architecture of Newfoundland and Labrador, taking as a case study the restoration of Victoria Hall, the Loyal Orange Lodge on Gower Street in St. John's.
As people try to learn about the past they will sometimes inquire about old regalia which they are unfamiliar with like a sash of a Royal Black Knight. Recently I was contacted by a museum in New Brunswick and provided with photos of a... more
In September 1795, fighting broke out between members of two men’s groups in a field near the Diamond crossroads in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. One group was the Catholic Defenders, and the other, an offshoot of the Protestant Peep... more
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal order within Northern Ireland that has branches across the former British Empire. Since its formation in 1795, it has been described as a brotherhood, definitively male with a triumphalist parade... more
This study investigates the organizational makeup of the Orange Order and whether it influences the use of ritualized behaviors that seek to enhance the visibility and power of this group in Northern Ireland. The investigation contributes... more
This paper focuses on the Orange Heritage initiative and its two interpretive centres in Northern Ireland. Developed over three years and funded with £3.6 million of EU money, the centres – one in east Belfast, the other in Loughgall (Co.... more
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal order within Northern Ireland that has branches across the former British Empire. Since its formation in 1795, it has been described as a brotherhood, definitively male with a triumphalist parade... more
This paper focuses on heritage development in relation to victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998). While some were killed by security forces, such as on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry/Derry (1972), paramilitaries accounted... more