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 1691 – The Fall of Athlone | Despite the bravery of legendary Sergeant Custume and others, severely outnumbered, the Connacht side of the town fell.

30/06/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

The first assault on Athlone came in 1690 after the defeat of the Irish at the Battle of the Boyne. General Douglas leading a substantial force, consisting mostly of Ulster regiments was the Williamite commander. His troops possibly numbered 10,000. When he arrived at Athlone he was confident that he would quickly conquer the town […]

#OTD in 1690 – William of Orange lands at Carrickfergus.

14/06/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

William III, born William Henry and commonly known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from the time he was born, as his father William II died a week before the prince’s birth in 1650. Young William was born in the Protestant Dutch Republic to Mary, the eldest daughter of King Charles […]

#OTD in 1689 – Siege of Derry began.

18/04/2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

In 1685, the Roman Catholic James II came to the throne of England. His agent Richard Talbot, earl of Tyrconnell, started to dismiss Protestant officers from the army in Ireland, replacing them with Roman Catholics. For English Protestants, the last straw came when the birth of a son to his second wife meant that his […]

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

12/07/2022.Reading time 16 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 12 July:

12/07/2022.Reading time 19 minutes.

#OTD in 1691 – The Fall of Athlone | Despite the bravery of legendary Sergeant Custume and others, severely outnumbered, the Connacht side of the town fell.

30/06/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1690 – William of Orange lands at Carrickfergus.

14/06/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1689 – Siege of Derry began.

18/04/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

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