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The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland and primarily associated with Ulster Protestants. It also has lodges in England , Scotland , Wales and the Republic of Ireland , as well as in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States .
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.
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 ...
10 October 1980: An off-duty UDR soldier, James Hewitt (48), was killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car on Tandragee Road, Portadown. He was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party. [40] 1981. 26 January 1981: A car bomb exploded in Portadown town centre, injuring three UDR soldiers and seven civilians, and damaging 16 shops. 1983
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.
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 ]
The Orange Order proper was founded in Loughgall in County Armagh 21 September 1795 in the aftermath of this Battle of the Diamond. [20] Many of the Orange Order's terms and language are derived from Freemasonry (e.g. lodge, grand master, [18] and degrees.) The two movements have since grown apart; today the highest bodies in Freemasonry ...
The Protestant Orange Order was blocked from marching its traditional route through the Catholic part of Portadown. Catholic residents held mass protests against the yearly march, seeing it as triumphalist and supremacist, forcing police to halt the march. [29]