The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History

391 Pages·2007·3.797 MB·English

by  KAUFMANN, Eric P.

The Orange Order
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The Orange Order
A Contemporary Northern Irish
History
Eric P. Kaufmann
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Acknowledgements
Iwouldliketoacknowledgethesupportofmywife,Frances,andmychildren,
Stuart and Alannah, who have had to put up with my trips to North-
ern Ireland and enthusiasm for an obscure subject. In terms of time and
money, this project could not have been completed without the generous
supportof the Economic and Social Research Council, which sponsored this
research through a two-year fellowship and a grant under its ‘Devolution
and Constitutional Change’ programme. Henry Patterson, my collaborator
onaforthcomingco-authoredbookontheOrangeOrderandUUP,Unionism
and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945 (Manchester: Manchester Uni-
versity Press, 2007), has been a tremendous source of insight into Northern
Ireland society, history, and Unionist politics. Ruth Dudley Edwards started
meonmywaywithanimportantlistofcontactsandpearlsofwisdomabout
researchingtheOrder.ChrisLloydatQueen’sUniversityBelfastgaveimpor-
tantadviceongeographicalanalysis.CecilHoustonprovidedencouragement
attheverybeginning.Thisresearchwassparkedoffyearsagobyacomment
from Philip Buckner of the Institute for Commonwealth Studies (’I wonder
whatever happened to the Orange Order in Toronto’), so thanks must go
to him. Useful comments and discussion have also come from, among oth-
ers, Jon Tonge, Dominic Bryan, Don MacRaild, David Fitzpatrick, Jonathan
Mattison, William Jenkins, David Wilson, Seamus Smyth, Paul Dixon, Chris
Farrington, and the Northern Ireland Politics group of the Political Studies
Association.
This book would never have been written without the excellent access
andhelpofOrangementhroughoutNorthernIreland.Foremostamongthem
are the former Executive Officer George Patton and the current Executive
Officer Dr David Hume. The Rev. Brian Kennaway, former chairman of the
Education Committee, was extremely helpful. Orangemen at county level
helped to plot lodge halls on Ordnance Survey maps and provided local
knowledgeandaccesstocountyreportsandminutebooks.HereIwouldlike
toespeciallythankPerryReid, RobertAbernethy,andHenryReidinTyrone,
Joe Campbell and Trevor Geary in Armagh, Tom Wright in Belfast, Noel
McIlfettrick in Fermanagh, David Brewster in Londonderry, Drew Nelson in
Down,andWilliamLeatheminAntrim.TheformerGrandMasterofCanada
NormRitchiehasbeenhelpfulwithadviceandcontacts.
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Acknowledgements
Note that the views expressed in this work are entirely my own and do not
reflect those of any of the above individuals. Colour versions of maps and
charts from this book, full statistical appendices, articles, and other Orange
material can be found on my Orange website: http://www.sneps.net/OO/
book1.html.
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Contents
ListofIllustrations x
ListofFigures xi
ListofTables xiii
AbbreviationsandMainSources xiv
1. Introduction 1
PartI. FromInsider toOutsider,1963–1995
2. CracksintheEstablishment:OrangeOppositiontoO’Neill,
1963–1969 21
3. OrangeismunderFire:NegotiatingtheTroubles,1969–1972 49
4. UnityintheFaceofTreachery,1972–1977 81
5. StableRejectionism:TheSmyth–MolyneauxAxis,1978–1995 108
PartII. Orangeismat theDawn of theThirdMillennium,
1995–2005
6. TheBattleofDrumcree 149
7. FromVictorytoDefeat:Drumcree,1996–1998 175
8. BreakingtheLink:Orange–UUPRelationsaftertheGoodFriday
Agreement 202
9. TheWaragainsttheParadesCommission 236
10. SegmentingtheOrange:TheFutureofOrangeisminthe
Twenty-FirstCentury 267
11. Conclusion 306
Notes 320
Index 357
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