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	Loyal Orders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Orange brethren must have passed the Purple Marksman degree of the Orange Institution in order to be eligible for membership of their local Preceptory (Buckley and Kenney 1995:177).
		As a consequence the Order is dissolved and reconstituted.
		Orange publications often argue that the Protestant community lack the benefits of a single unifying church as is the case in the Catholic community.
	www.serve.com /pfc/orders/loyal.html (17858 words)

	The Orange Order is the enemy of all workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Orange parades are being used to test the supposed neutrality of the northern regime and the RUC in particular.
		The Orange Order was born in Armagh in 1795 as part of an armed terror campaign to deny full citizenship rights to Catholics.
		The Orange Order's complex nature is also shown by the events of 1881 when it was possible for the Land league to hold a meeting in the local Orange hall at Loughgall.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws99/ws57_order.html (1495 words)

	A Brief History of Orangeism in Ireland
		Ironically, after the Act of Union the Orange Order's members were so opposed to the Union that they had to pass a rule not to discuss the Union at their meetings.
		Annual Orange marches helped to maintain the symbols of their role as defending their faith against a hostile Catholic population; they also reinforced the Orange Order's favored social and political position in the country.
		Orange Lodges also played a significant role in registering voters and selecting which of its members to run for office (since at the time all elected officials were members of the Order).
	larkspirit.com /general/orangehist.html (7130 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Profile: The Orange Order
		The Orange Order is the largest Protestant organisation in Northern Ireland with at least 75,000 members, some of them in the Republic of Ireland.
		Orangeism is also active in former British colonies - principally Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the two west African countries of Togo and Ghana.
		Images of protesters blocking traffic while brandishing Orange regalia with loyalist paramilitary figures in the background are causing a drift away from the Order, he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1422212.stm (1021 words)

	International Orange Watch Committee -- Orange Myths
		The Orange Order was founded not in the 1690s, but in the 1790s as a reaction to efforts, especially by the United Irishmen who were predominately Protestant, to unite people of all religious persuasions in the cause of civil rights in Ireland and independence from England.
		Dominated from the start by wealthy Protestant landlords, the Orange Order initially opposed the Act of Union [with Britain] of 1800 because the abolition of the Irish parliament, which only represented a tiny wealthy minority, seemed to threaten their privileges.
		It is not the mythical heritage of King Billy and the Boyne, nor the legacy of the Battle of the Diamond and the founding of the Order in 1795.
	www.usm.maine.edu /~kuzma/security/shamos/myths.html (960 words)

	Blackshade: for the IRISH in ALL of us! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It was founded...'for the preservation of the Protestant religion and to serve as a bulwark against insidious attempts of the opponents of liberty [sic]'.
		The principle aims of the organization are to commemorate the two principle events of the siege of Derry which began in 1688, the closing of the Gates by the Apprentice Boys in December and the Relief of the city in August.
		One, an evangelical preacher called T.H. Sloan, was expelled from the Orange Order after he criticized it for being 'soft on Catholicism' while the other, a Dublin based journalist called Robert Lindsey Crawford went on to frame the famous Magheramourne Manifesto 'which attempted to lift the new movement out of sectarian politics'.
	www.blackshade.net /norire/orange/orange.html (588 words)

	The Orange Order
		What is rarely acknowledged among its adherents is that Orangeism is not at its heart a Protestant cultural response to Catholicism, but a deliberate sectarian tactic engineered and promoted by the British throughout the centuries to keep the people of Ireland divided and easier to rule.
		Orange leaders often refuse to condemn the violence associated with these marches:" Harold Gracey, a leading Orange Order figure in Portadown, described why he was refusing to condemn the violence that has swept this area some 30 miles southwest of Belfast.
		The Orange Order -- secret and oath-bound -- has historically always had a key say on who advances to leadership in the Ulster Unionist Party, with the Order controlling over 100 ex officio votes on the Ulster Unionist Council, which is the governing body of the Ulster Unionist Party.
	www.irishnationalcaucus.org /pages/Articles2004/TheOrangeOrder.htm (3952 words)

	Orange Order Exposed
		The Orange Order is one of the biggest secret societies existing throughout the world today, having tens of thousands of members in Ireland, Britain, America, and throughout the British Commonwealth (especially Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
		The Orange Order was founded on 21st September 1795 shortly after the 'Battle of the Diamond' outside a small village in Northern Ireland called Loughgall.
		The Orange Order is Loyalist in its outlook, strongly supporting the Monarchy of England and the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
	www.nireland.com /evangelicaltruth/orange.html (1422 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Profile: The Orange Order
		But at the same time, the Orange Order was faced with some members displaying an ambiguous relationship towards loyalist paramilitaries and their activities.
		The route of the march, one of the oldest annual parades by the order, took on a symbolic meaning for both communities out of all proportion with its actual importance.
		In 2000, one senior Orange figure said that the order was losing moderate members because it was increasingly dominated by politics, "ignorance and malevolence".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/3853277.stm (891 words)

	Orange Order
		(The founding members of the Orange Institution were Freemasons as was King William III, Prince of Orange.) Very quickly after the foundation of the Order, there emerged a second 'Purple Marksman' or 'Plain Purple' degree.
		As their names suggest these 'Black' organizations were modeled upon the older chivalric orders-and more directly upon the chivalric orders found within the Freemasons.
		The 2 1/2 reminds us of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh who, although their inheritance was assured on the other side of Jordan advanced in the vanguard of the army when crossing the river to assist their brethren to secure the Promised Land.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /masonicmuseum/fraternalism/orange_order.htm (425 words)

	The Orange Order -- The Wild Geese Today
		To safe-guard what the Orange Order believes is their civil right to march down the Garvaghy Road, a radical loyalist group known as 'The Spirit of Drumcree' was created.
		Yet the Orange Order argues that the politicization of the marching season and the confrontation which have accompanied it are of recent origin - part of the current round of 'the troubles' which commenced in 1969.
		The Orange Order, in turn, viewed themselves not merely as the defenders of Protestantism, but also as a native garrison which was crucial to the survival of Britain's political interest in Ireland.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/orangor.html (2250 words)

	Orange Order - Uncyclopedia
		The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organisation based in Northern Ireland.
		The Orange Order was founded as a faction-fighting organisation in Loughgall, Ireland in 1795.
		Slowly the popularity of the Orange Order grew, and new branches began to be set up across the country in protestant strongholds.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Orange_Order (583 words)

	Irish Diaspora Studies - Study Guides - The Orange Order
		The historiography of the Orange Order is relatively sparse, given its importance in the nineteenth century.
		Twentieth-century Scottish Orangeism is analysed in Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace: religious tensions in modern Scotland (Manchester, 1987) and Graham Walker, `The Orange order in Scotland between the wars', in International Review of Social History, 37, 2 (1992).
		The fullest treatment of the Canadian Orange tradition is Houston and Smyth's brilliant mix of history, geography and culture, The Sash Canada Wore: An historical geography of the Orange Order in Canada (Toronto, 1980), though Hereward Senior, Orangeism: the Canadia Phase (Toronto, 1972) should also be examined.
	www.brad.ac.uk /acad/diaspora/guides/orange.shtml (1016 words)

	The Orange Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Orange Order is a central aspect of the culture that Campbell describes.
		The Orange marching tradition in the north west of England between the 1870s and the 1920s', in T.G. Fraser (ed.), Following the Drum: The Irish Parading Tradition (Basingstoke, 2000), pp.44-59, in the same collection as McFarland's essay, this chapter draws primarily upon press accounts of the Orange tradition in England's north-west.
		D.M. MacRaild, 'Wherever Orange is Worn: The Orange Order and Irish Migration in the 19th and early 20th centuries', Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol.
	www.irishdiaspora.net /vp01.cfm?outfit=ids&requesttimeout=500&folder=16&paper=19 (1784 words)

	CNN - Orangemen decision to reroute marches avoids major violence - July 12, 1997
		The party and order helped found Northern Ireland in 1920 as a Protestant-majority state, and the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein have sought for 27 years to end British rule and unite Northern Ireland with Ireland.
		The Orange Order scrapped one march in Belfast and parades in Newry and Armagh, and rerouted another in Londonderry.
		Orange Order leaders said they acted in good faith by rerouting their marches, but said they were disappointed with the nationalist response.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9707/12/nireland.late (972 words)

	Orange Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Orange parades often appear in the news for all the wrong reasons, and it is deeply regrettable that most people's knowledge and perception of the Orange Order - both nationally and internationally - is entirely shaped by news broadcasts concerning trouble at Orange parades.
		Many parades have been voluntarily re-routed by the Orange Order to facilitate good community relations, and those which still pass through Roman Catholic areas do so because no alternative route is available.
		The Orange Order is willing to talk to bona fide residents groups, who may have genuine concerns about parades, but not to those which are led by members of Sinn Fein/IRA.
	www.orangelodge.mcmail.com /parades.htm (830 words)

	Orange Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Orange Institution became an INTERNATIONAL Organisation as the benefits of a religious and fraternal organisation became obvious.
		Military Warrants were issued from the earliest years of the Institution and this may have added to the growth of Orangeism as serving soldiers carried their culture and identity throughout the Empire.
		Orangeism spread to Montreal in 1818, Australia in 1845, Togo in 1915 and Ghana in 1928.
	www.scottishloyalists.com /orange.htm (201 words)

	“Write a critical account of any historical monograph, biography, or general history relating to nineteenth-century ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Orange Order was established in 1795 as a primarily defensive organisation - to protect the beleaguered Protestant people of Ireland against the rapidly proliferating terrorist bands of Catholic "Defenders": "nearly all sections of the Protestant peasantry were alarmed by the new power of the Defenders".
		Ultimately the more anti-union elements of the Order were helpless to prevent the passing of Union - perhaps this helplessness contributed to some extent in preserving the integrity of the Order as a whole despite the split.
		That the Orange Order is, and was, a sectarian organisation insofar as that it only admits Protestant males cannot be disputed.
	www.csc.tcd.ie /~unionist/ozy/words/orange.htm (2124 words)

	AllAboutIrish - Thoughts on the Orange Order
		Information published (on the Web) by the Orange Order organization, or its members/followers, paints a picture of a harmless group that seems amazed that there should be any controversy about their group.
		The Orange Order, whose full name is Loyal Orange Institution, was founded in Co. Armagh in 1795 after an incident known as the Battle of the Diamond.
		In recent times, the Orange Order in Ireland has made worldwide headlines over their efforts to hold their annual parades commemorating what they view as the final resolution of the Glorious Revolution and the Protestant victory over Catholicism at the Battle of the Boyne.
	allaboutirish.com /library/religion/orangeorder.shtm (812 words)

	New Statesman: Orangemen march to a standstill - UK's venerable Orange Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Orange Order is one of the very few popular institutions in Britain organised and supported by ordinary citizens without the intervention of the state, the churches or the entertainment industry.
		The Order, not for the first time in its two centuries of existence, is raising the political temperature, quite deliberately, in defence of its right to march.
		In the partitioned province, the Orange remained a cross-class (albeit predominately lower class) grouping which evolved into something between a social club, a patriotic society, a charitable organisation and a community defence unit; but its great moments were the marches.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4393_v127/ai_20967798 (1385 words)

	Orange Order pulls out of parade - The Orange Chronicle
		An Order statement said it was pulling out of the march because its members' safety could not be guaranteed.
		Orange Order grand secretary Drew Nelson said both his organisation and the parade organisers were disappointed that the Order would not be attending the festivities.
		LOL482: The purpose of the Orange Order in thre UK can be summarised as:To Maintain intact the Protestant Constitution and Christian...
	www.orange-order.co.uk /chronicle?itemid=17 (471 words)

	Orange Order -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The society was formed in 1795 to maintain the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland in the face of rising demands for Catholic Emancipation.
		The species of orange most important commercially are the China orange, also called the sweet, or common, orange; the mandarin orange, some varieties of which are called tangerines...
		It is important that the rootstock be strong in order to graft successfully.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057266 (818 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Grand Orange Lodge
		The first ever Orange Awards will be staged on Saturday 19 November at the Shankill Road Spectrum Centre to reward those Orange lodges and individual Orangemen judged to have made an outstanding contribution towards promoting the Orange Order and its aims.
		The Orange Order believes an overnight arson attack on Whiterock Orange Hall was a deliberate attempt to stir up inter-community tensions in north and west Belfast.
		The Orange Order has called on both the Royal Mail and An Post in the Irish Republic to consider a special stamp to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme next year.
	www.grandorange.org.uk /press/recent.html (298 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Grand Orange Lodge
		The Loyal Orange Institution (more commonly known as The Orange Order) is a Protestant fraternity with members throughout the world.
		Our name honours William III, Prince of Orange, whose victory over despotic power laid the foundation for the evolution of Constitutional Democracy in the British Isles.
		The Order with its proud history is primarily a religious organisation that also expresses the culture of a people.
	www.grandorange.org.uk (159 words)

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