Twelfth of July Orange Order Marches | Demonstrations: A History of Violence

12/07/2023.Reading time 16 minutes.

The Orange community is the inheritor of a tradition and a set of religious and cultural sensibilities that purport to come from the period of Britain’s Glorious Revolution, the 1688-90 Williamite Revolution when the last Stuart, James II, was ousted and the Protestant Settlement secured. As the defenders of the Crown and the faith, then, […]

#OTD in Irish History | 12 July:

12/07/2023.Reading time 19 minutes.

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 […]

#OTD in 1690 – Battle of the Boyne | The Jacobite forces (Irish, French, Germans and Walloons) are defeated by the Williamites (Irish, English, Dutch, Germans and Danes).

01/07/2023.Reading time 16 minutes.

The Williamite victory, being seen as a defeat for Louis XIV, is welcomed by Pope Alexander VIII. Fought on 1 July 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II and his successor, King William III, the Battle of the Boyne was the largest engagement ever to take place on Irish soil. While militarily […]