County Longford Orangeism
After its formation after the ‘Battle of the Diamond’ in County Armagh in 1795, Orangeism spread rapidly over Ireland. Via the conduit of Yeomanry troops, the …….
County Mayo’s Orange heritage
In its 3rd August 1968 edition, Connacht newspaper The Western People included an inch and a half column that many readers probably never even noticed. It reported …….
A Sligo Orange Hall
One of the first county’s to establish a County Grand Lodge, even as late as 1884 there were still a reported 400 active Orangemen in Sligo. …….
New Leitrim Great War book launched
Attitudes to the Great War have changed dramatically in Irish Nationalist communities during the past decade, with the transformation in opinion particularly striking across the Republic …….
Tandragee Ulster Volunteers
Tandragee town and the surrounding areas in the 16th and 17th centuries were the stronghold of the O’Hanlon clan. Its ancient history is largely lost to …….
Bann Valley Volunteers
Upon the advent of the first Home Rule Bill in 1886, Irish Unionism in partnership with the Orange Order canvassed Orange Lodges across the entirety of …….
The Cavan Volunteer Force
Like many other areas of Ireland, the English Crown Plantations of the 16th and 17th centuries would come to define the demographics and political battles of …….
Donegal’s Ulster Volunteers
The story of pre-war Donegal is unsurprisingly entwined around the Home Rule debate. At the turn of the 20th Century the County’s population was a staggering …….
The Ulster Defence Union
One of the lesser known Loyalist organisations of Ireland, following the announcement of the new Government of Ireland Bill in August 1892 (the 2nd Home Rule …….
The Review of the 36th Ulster Division
‘See the bayonets gleam, hark the roll of the drum; As the khaki-clad columns in close order come; Ah, the North may be proud of her …….