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Who Fears to Speak of ’98 (Ulster History Foundation) The Orange Contribution to the 1798 Commemorations For anyone to attempt to ‘break new ground’ in and institutional organisation it is difficult enough. In an Institution like the Orange Order, given its commitment to “meddle not with them that are given to change:” (Proverbs 24:21), it is well nigh impossible.
Read moreMarch will be a recognition of the validity of Orangemen’s culture, identity. The Orange Order parade in Dublin next month is about restoring a lost tradition and showing respect for minorities, argues Brian Kennaway As a student at Trinity in the late 1960’s I walked many of the streets in Dublin City Centre. One of my greatest disappointments of those
Read more“Year’s events have reshaped Orange thinking” RITE AND REASON Irish Times 6th July 1999 There has been a subtle change of heart, if not perhaps yet a “seismic shift”, by the Orange Order on the Drumcree parade, argues Brian Kennaway While one should never regard anything in history as inevitable close observers of the events surrounding the Drumcree Church Service
Read moreA Vision for the Institution. Speech by Rev Brian Kennaway M.A., Deputy Grand Chaplain of Ireland, Convenor of the Education Committee of the G.O.L.I. At Eldon L.O.L. 7 Dinner 5 November 1998 I am honoured to respond to the TOAST ‘Ulster’ as Ulstermen we understand that the future of ‘Ulster’ in inextricably linked to the future of the Orange Order.
Read moreWHAT IS THE ORANGE ORDER? Brian Kennaway, Convenor of the Education Committee of the Orange Institution, gives us his answer In recent years the high public profile of the Orange Order has raised for many people questions about the true nature of the Institution. There are many misunderstandings of what the Order actually believes and practices and there is therefore
Read moreOrangeism and the 1798 Rebellion There may be some misunderstanding as to why the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland should be commemorating the United Irishmen’s Rebellion of 1798? This is perhaps because the principles of the Orange Institution have often been deliberately misrepresented to be anti-Catholic. We are exclusively Protestant but not anti-Catholic as the Basis of the Institution state
Read moreParity of Esteem in Remembrance I agree with Professor Walker, in his article, “Painful reminder of Ireland’s bloody past”, (1/2/98), when he maintains that the emphasis so far has been on the United Irishmen and little on the Loyalists. Because most of the history books on Ireland have been written from a sympathetic point of view towards Irish nationalism, the
Read moreWhy Do Orangemen Commemorate 1798? There may be some misunderstanding as to why the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland should be commemorating the United Irishmen’s Rebellion of 1798? Those who have some understanding of history know that this period of the history of Ireland is very complicated and like the issues of today, they are not simply ‘black and white’
Read moreParity of Esteem in Remembrance I read with interest the very timely article by Professor Brian Walker entitled “Painful reminder of Ireland’s bloody past”. Professor Walker makes a number of salient points not least that the ‘real story’ must be told, no matter how unpalatable that might be. It is only but right that the terrible suffering should not be
Read moreThe Questions are not Exclusively Orange RITE AND REASON IRISH TIMES – 2nd June 1997 Eamon Stack poses the question “can Orangemen walk with equal citizenship?” These new phrases such as “equal citizenship”, like its predecessor “parity of esteem” is really ‘old wine in new wineskins’. The contribution of Eamon Stack to ‘Rite and Reason’ on 27th May is most unhelpful
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