#Orange Order

[suiteddaddies]

[starfleetwitch]

What they say: "I'm fine"

What they mean: THE HOME SECRETARY OPENED HER MOUTH AGAIN AND NOW DATA'S LINE FROM STAR TREK ABOUT 2024 IRISH UNIFICATION MAY END UP BEING ACCURATE.

[dougielombax]

If self proclaimed “comedians” in Ireland could STOP comparing orange order hate marches to pride parades, that would be great!

It’s a false equivalency and it’s not fucking FUNNY!

Plus it’s the worst kind of painfully awful “local” humour. Ghastly stuff.

Passive homophobia wrapped up as so called “witty “banter””.

“LOL, YOU’SE ARE LIKE THA GHAYS¡”

Wow! I haven’t heard such wit since the last TEN THOUSAND times I’ve heard that homophobic CRAP!

Pain in the arse!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"PRINCE OF WALES DRUM IN ORANGE PARADE HERE," Toronto Star. July 11, 1933. Page 3. --- This huge Irish drum, bearing the likeness of the Prince of Wales, and which his royal highness beat to the tune of popular Orange airs at the opening of the new Ulster parliament buildings last November, will be seen in Toronto's Orange parade to-morrow at the head of W. H. G. Armstrong Memorial L.O.L., 3001. The instrument was formerly called the "Drum of Ballymacash", but was renamed "Prince of Wales". It is to be returned to Ireland in time for Derry Day celebrations on August 12. With the drum is seen James Carson, superintendent of Toronto County Orange Hall. Men in northern Ireland to-morrow will salute the Union Jack presented by Mayor Stewart last year through Toronto delegates to the Triennial Council.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 12 July:

1660 – Sir Mark Rainsford was the 36th Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1700 to 1701. During this period the statue of King William of Orange on College Green was unveiled by him, a monument which would become a centre of protest and celebration for generations in the capital. Rainsford was also the original founder of the brewery at St. James’ Gate, which would later become the Guinness Brewery.…

[tower-of-hana]

Orange Order: I hate Catholics so much they cause all the bad things to happen

Tumblerina: Wow these guys are really cool and smart :)

[offense-is-the-best-defence]

No only is it the time of year the Orange Order march & bang their drums, it's also the big one & it hit my town.

[visionsofthefu]

Why do police defend the Orange Order when it's clearly a hate group?

[heartnosekid]

weirdolini on ig

[immaculatasknight]

Dudley did wrong

[seachranaidhe]

The Sun Never Sets – Extramural Activity

https://extramuralactivity.com/2023/07/13/the-sun-never-sets/

[dougielombax]

“Shure this is our culture dontcha know, ye ought tae show some respect! We built this place, civilised it from thon native savages and terrorists!”

Their culture, in question:

I’ve seen more culture in a fucking petri dish.

(And yes that last image is from O, Brother Where Art Thou. I wasn’t gonna use an actual Klan meeting!)

This, meanwhile is nothing but textbook barbarism and colonial supremacist savagery masquerading as ritual!

(Where do you think the Ku Klux Klan got it from? (No I’m not making this up))

All it needs now to get any WORSE is the addition of human sacrifices! (Then again there was that ghastly firebomb incident in July of 1998)

And no! You CANNOT compare it to the Nowruz bonfires we see from Kurdish people and Zoroastrians! Those are rooted in ancient tradition and ritual. And they don’t burn trash when setting them up either!

This shit is just pigfaced triumphalist bullshit with a touch of anthropocentric idiocy! Borne of siege mentality bullshit!

To say nothing of the pollution this shit causes!

White trash colonial savagery.

And they call US savages!

What’s that old phrase about the pot calling the kettle black?

And that’s not even taking into account their society’s RAMPANT anti-intellectualism and hatred for the arts, humanities and the environment.

They despise the very land on which they’ve settled.

Almost as if they’re afraid of it.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"DOCTOR THREATENED TO 'GET HIM', IS CLAIM," Toronto Star. January 17, 1934. Page 3. --- Owen Sound Hospital Head, Says Webb Promised Orange Order Would Act ---- Special to The Star Owen Sound, Jan. 17. - First witness to-day in Dr. Gordon Webb's suit against Owen Sound General and Marine hospital, J. R. McLinden, hospital board chairman, testified that when Dr. Webb had been notified of his dismissal, Dr. Webb had declared: "I'm going to the Orange Order about this. I'll get you through the Orange Order." Dr. Webb charges wrongful dismissal.

Mr. McLinden is a Roman Catholic. Witness said Dr. Webb was hired on approval and several weeks later was retained on an indefinite hiring agreement at $60 a week.

J. M. Godfrey: "He was head of the X-ray department from July, 1929, until the middle of August, 1932?"

"Yes."

A statement of earnings of the X- ray department during Dr. Webb's employment showed an excess of receipts over expenses of $7.900, receipts being at the rate of about $7,800 a year.

"The doctors complained of Dr. Webb's treatment of tonsilitis and goitre by X-ray."

"Yes. but I thought that if these treatments would save patients operations and perhaps cure them, they should be allowed. The hospital board passed a resolution, despite the opposition of the doctors, permitting Dr. Webb to give treatments."

Mr. McLinden told of differences over holding X-ray department receipts. Witness said Dr. Webb objected to new rules, because he felt they reflected on his honesty. The hospital head complained that Dr. Webb was untidy in the X-ray room and smoked while attending patients.

That she had been cured of tonsilitis and goitre by Dr. Webb's X-ray treatments in spite of the opposition of her own physician to her taking such treatments, was the evidence of Mrs. J. H. van Overbeek to-day on behalf of Dr. Webb.

"Dr. Howey was urging me to have an operation, but I wanted to avoid it." Mrs. van Overbeek testified. "He would not give me permission to take the X-ray treatments for goitre. I am now completely cured and am enjoying the best of health in my life."

Dr. Webb, recalled on his own behalf, cited instances to show that he had been right in his differences of opinion on diagnosis of several patients, referred to in yesterday's evidence by several doctors.

Mrs. van Overbeek said she had been a patient of Dr. Richard Howey and had been suffering from tonsilitis and a serious goitre.

"In 1929 Dr. Howey told me to go to bed for three months. My tonsils were bad and he wanted to remove them. I was trying to avoid an operation, I had heard of so many unsuccessful ones. In 1932 I heard of successful treatments for tonsilitis and goitre by Dr. Webb."

"What was Dr. Howey's attitude?"

"I pleaded with him to give me his consent to take these X-ray treatments, but he definitely refused. Finally Dr. Howey consented to have me take treatments for tonsilitis and the hospital board permitted Dr. Webb to treat me for goitre."

Claims Complete Cure "What was the result?" "I felt better almost at once and finally my tonsil ailments and my goitre were both completely cured."

"Have you had any recurrence?"

"Absolutely not. I have never had such good health in my life."

Charges Deliberate Lying "Dr. Bell was deliberately lying," declared Dr. Webb, when recalled, referring to the difference between Dr. Bell's recollection of an X-ray report and the document itself.

Judge Morley: "That's your opinion."

Dr. Webb: "Well, he was mistaken, anyway."

Witness said Dr. Charles Gaviller disagreed with him on the diagnosis of a boy. "We called in Dr. Mc- Phedran of Toronto and his examination confirmed my diagnosis." he stated.

Witness told how, X-raying a patient for Dr. H. G. Murray, he deep-seated abscess. probing, told him had reported a Dr. Murray, after his report was wrong.

"I told Dr. Murray he hadn't probed deep enough. He said: 'This is just like your other reports, but he probed more deeply and found matter."

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1998 – The three Quinn brothers, Richard, 11, Mark, 10, and Jason 9, are burned to death by a Loyalist firebomb in Ballymoney, 40 miles northwest of Belfast. 

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha. Jason, Richard and Mark Quinn were three brothers killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in a firebomb attack on their home in Ballymoney, Co Antrim. Garfield Gilmour, was found guilty of murdering the three brothers 15 months later and sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting that he had driven three other men to the house to commit the fatal…

[maypoleman1]

12th July

The Twelfth

Source: The Guardian

Today is The Twelfth in Ulster and parts of Scotland when the Orange Order, which was founded in 1795, march through towns and cities to commemorate the victory of the Protestant William of Orange over the Catholic King James II at the Battle of Boyne in 1690. The victory ensured the success of the 1688 Glorious Revolution in the United Kingdom and the deposition of James. It also ensured the continuance of the Protestant ascendancy in Ulster and the domination of its Catholic minority which continued at least until the 1999 Good Friday Agreement. As a result, the Orange Order marches have been flashpoints for political tension and sectarian conflict each year.

A slightly more benign commemoration of the Boyne is the Sham Fight which takes place on or about the 12th at Scarva, near Portadown in County Down. Scarva was where William camped the night before the battle and each year after an Orange parade, the battle is re-staged as a fight between two horsemen, one decked out as William and the other as King James. William (known by Ulster Protestants as “King Billy”) of course wins every time.

[tonyrossmcmahon]

Battle of the Boyne - Pope backed King Billy!

On July 12 every year, Irish Protestants celebrate the Battle of the Boyne even though the Pope backed King Billy - Tony McMahon explains

On July 12 every year, Loyalist Protestants and members of the Orange Order celebrate the Battle of the Boyne. Why? Because this was when the Protestant King William III of England – or King Billy if you prefer – defeated the overthrown English king, James II who had fled to Ireland with his forces. James had tried to restore the Catholic faith in his realms (England, Scotland, Wales, and…