(Note: As an atheist and socialist, I have no time for the Orange Order but as a Dubliner and student of history, it is important to cover all parts of our city’s culture and past.)
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In case you missed it, RTE Radio 1 had a very interesting radio documentary on the Orange Order in Dublin. You can listen to it here. (It’s rare to hear self-described “working class” Dublin men talking about their allegiance to the British crown!)
In 1795, the Orange Order was founded in Dublin, where the Grand Lodge was first opened on Dawson Street in 1798. Today, the Dublin and Wicklow District LOL 1313 meets at their hall on the Northumberland Road. The lodge’s website has a number of fascinating bits of information, including this on the Civil War and 1930s period:
“Dublin was therefore, as the administrative Capital of the Island, the natural headquarters for the Orange Institution and remained such until the Headquarters Buildings, the Fowler Memorial Hall in Rutland Square, was severely damaged in the Civil War. The Headquarters, situated in what is now Parnell Square, at the top of O’Connell Street, had been seized by the IRA, and in conjunction with the Rotunda, used as their headquarters.
Following its evacuation by the IRA all the books and documents which had survived the siege were removed to Belfast where they were safely stored. The last public parade in Dublin was in 1936, when the Brethren were attacked as they walked from the Fowler Hall to Amiens St Station to travel by train to Belfast, for the annual 12th of July celebrations.”
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I’m just back from Utrecht NL. During a tour of the Rijnauwen Fort I noticed the coat of arms of the House of Orange which contained the motto “Je maintiendrai”. This is translated in the literature as “I will maintain”. Surely a very clumsy translation. I prefer our native Orange version “No Surrender”.
http://www.photopol.com/utrecht2/rijnauwen.html
If you try to get Pat Kenny’s program from this morning, 12 July, on playback, an amazing sequence of facts were popped into our Rebel minds, also the working class statement that the 1916 leaders and their men, were nothing but a bunch of thugs, ignorance is grand , but when combined with sheer stupidity, it is a dangerous commodity.