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The Orange Order was founded in 1795 in the village of Loughgall, a few miles from Drumcree, after the Battle of the Diamond. [8] Its first ever marches were held on 12 July 1796 in Portadown, Lurgan and Waringstown . [ 9 ]
An Orange Order spokesman refused to condemn McIlwaine's membership of the Order. [ 164 ] On 12 July 1972, at least fifty masked and uniformed members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) escorted an Orange march into the Catholic area of Portadown, [ 98 ] [ 165 ] [ 166 ] saluting the Orangemen as they passed. [ 167 ]
Portadown is a predominantly Protestant town and ancestral home of the Orange Order. Other loyalist organisations were strongly represented in the town during the Troubles such as: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). [citation needed]
Portadown is the site of the long-running Drumcree dispute. Catholics have protested the yearly marches through their part of town by the Protestant Orange Order, who are celebrating the 1690 victory over Catholics by William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne. Often violence and protests have been sparked by this event.
Security barriers in Portadown, County Armagh at the height of the Troubles. Wright made his home in Portadown from the time he transferred there as a teenager. In the more strongly loyalist environment of Portadown, nicknamed the "Orange Citadel", [15] Wright was, along with other working-class Protestant teenagers in the area, targeted by the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster ...
The Orange Order was founded in 1795 in and around the County Armagh town of Portadown. The first Orange service and 'church parade' from Drumcree was on 1 July 1795. [6] That parade was instigated by Protestant ministers in the Portadown area. One of them, a Reverend George Maunsell, gave a sermon in June 1795.
About 100 rioters clashed with the RUC in Bellaghy and the Orange hall was hit by a number of petrol-bombs. [49] Another three Orange halls were burnt in Portadown, Dunloy and Moy. [27] [48] During disturbances in Portadown on Tuesday morning, an RUC officer was shot in the arm and leg by IRA members near Garvaghy Road. [29]
On 7 July, members of the loyalist Orange Order were blocked by police from marching down the Garvaghy Road in Portadown. [7] The annual march had been contentious, with loyalists passing through a majority nationalist community holding banners and playing drums and pipes. [8]