Posted By: July 08, 2014
“ … Orangeism is essentially triumphalist, each parade a glorification of military victory and religious supremacism…” A CULTURE BASED ON TRIUMPHAL CELEBRATIONS Fionnuala O’ Connor. Irish News ( Belfast). Tuesday, July 8, 2014. THE drums are beating. Sweet glimpses of rustic Orange brethren paddling at Rossnowlagh and walking winding country roads are sugar on the bitterness. Bring on the silken […]
Posted By: July 08, 2014
A professor, a pollster and a journalist hashed out the question at Chatham House last week. Lucy Fisher . New Statesman. July 7, 2014 What is united about our kingdom? Is it the economy, governance or identity? What is united about our kingdom? Is it the economy, governance or identity? As the debate on Scottish […]
Posted By: July 08, 2014
Ruth Wishart. Heald Scotland. Thursday, 26 June, 2014 Last Saturday, we had a fancy dress parade along the road joining two of the Rosenath Peninsula villages.The average age was about 10. The music was provided by local adults and children showing off their prowess with the newly acquired community Samba kit and a few locals in high-viz […]
Posted By: July 07, 2014
EDITOR’S NOTE : ORANGE ORDER HEIGHTENS TENSION. The Belfast Telegraph — commonly seen as reflecting the Protestant/Unionist position — explains in this article how the Orange Order is escalating tension — in an already very tense Northern Ireland. Ireland ‘governance’, says Grand Secretary Drew Nelson Orange Order Grand Secretary Drew Nelson BY NOEL MCADAM . BELFAST TELEGRAPH. […]
Posted By: July 07, 2014
Dan Keenan . Irish Times. Monday, July 7,2014. Failure lies in wait for young working-class Protestant males. That is the stark warning in a recent Community Relations Council report presented to the North’s Assembly members on the prospects for young men in Belfast’s loyalist areas. The report cites the shocking levels of educational under- achievement among young Protestant […]