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Book The Orange Order

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  • Author : Brian Kennaway
  • Publisher : Methuen Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Orange Order written by Brian Kennaway and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this final book of the Legends trilogy Hoole reclaims the thrown of his father and goes on to wage a war against the forces of chaos, greed and oppression led by the powerful warlord-tyrants. Grank, the first collier, uses his skills with fire and metals to forge weapons for battle. With great trepidation Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and wins. At the dawn of a new ear of peace, Hoole searches for the ideal place to establish not a kingdom but an order of free owls and finds the Great Tree. (continued) There he rejects the absolute power his followers want to invest in him and establishes instead the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, an order of noble owls of all kinds based on learning, equality and nobility of thought and deed. Before he dies he takes the Ember back to the Sacred Volcanoes and hides it, knowing that if it falls into the wrong talons its powers would endanger the Great Tree and the principles it is founded on. He returns to the Tree and dies ending a time of magic and legend but leaving an order of owls noble in thought and deed, dedicated to learning and equality among all owls.

Book The Orange Order

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  • Author : Eric P. Kaufmann
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-05-17
  • ISBN : 9780199208487
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Orange Order written by Eric P. Kaufmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic social history of the Orange Order. Based on unprecedented access to the Order's archives, the book charts the Order's path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present crisis, and argues that the traditional Unionism of the past is giving way to a more militant form which is winning the hearts of the younger generation.

Book The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order written by Daragh Curran and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formed in 1795, the Orange Order had grown into a formidable popular organisation in its first forty years of existence. However, against a background of major social, political and economic change, the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland made the forced decision to disband the Order in 1836 in the face of mounting government pressure. In spite of this, the extremely widespread Protestant association could not simply disappear and continued to thrive at local level. By 1845 it had been officially revived amidst fears of renewed Catholic agitation. Within the next four years the Order eventually returned to its previous popular standing. This journey was far from straightforward and many obstacles needed negotiation. This book will explore many factors such as the failed Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 and the notorious and fatal clash with Catholics at Dolly's Brae in 1849, and trace the uneven and difficult path undertaken by Orangemen through this pivotal time in Irish history.

Book The Orange Order

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  • Author : Mervyn Jess
  • Publisher : The O'Brien Press
  • Release : 2012-10-04
  • ISBN : 1847175112
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Orange Order written by Mervyn Jess and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of bloodshed, sustained by sectarianism and shrouded in secrecy, the Orange Order is one of the most abiding and controversial religion-based organisations in Europe, if not the world. A Catholic cannot join: its doors are open only to those who profess Protestantism. BBC journalist Mervyn Jess, who has written extensively on Orange issues, strips away the mystery and myths of the Order and traces its origins and defining moments spanning three turbulent centuries. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in finding out what "the Orange" is all about.

Book Women and the Orange Order

Download or read book Women and the Orange Order written by D. A. J. MacPherson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a transnational account of women's involvement in conservative political activism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Britain and Canada

Book Toronto  the Belfast of Canada

Download or read book Toronto the Belfast of Canada written by William J. Smyth and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth-century Toronto, municipal politics were so dominated by the Irish Protestants of the Orange Order that the city was known as the “Belfast of Canada.” For almost a century, virtually every mayor of Toronto was an Orangeman and the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne was a civic holiday. Toronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today’s cosmopolitan city. Using lodge membership lists, census data, and municipal records, William J. Smyth details the Orange Order’s role in creating Toronto’s municipal culture of militant Protestantism, loyalism, and monarchism. One of Canada’s foremost experts on the Orange Order, Smyth analyses the Orange Order’s influence between 1850 and 1950, the city’s frequent public displays of sectarian tensions, and its occasional bouts of rioting and mayhem.

Book Orange Parades

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  • Author : Dominic Bryan
  • Publisher : Pluto Press
  • Release : 2000-09-20
  • ISBN : 9780745314136
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Orange Parades written by Dominic Bryan and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how transnational corporations use lobby groups to shape EU policy. New updated edition

Book Loyal to the Core

Download or read book Loyal to the Core written by James W. McAuley and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Written by a team of acknowledged experts in the field, this book provides the first systematic analysis and survey of Orange Order members to date. *Will attract public interest and debate as well as much media comment. *Locates Orangeism within broader debates about Britishness. The Orange Order remains the largest organisation in Northern Irish civil society, with a membership exceeding the combined total of all the political parties in the region. This book provides the first ever comprehensive membership survey of the Orange Order. The book draws upon a detailed study of the Orange Order and on a wealth of individual interviews with Orange leaders and its grassroots base. It begins with a historical outline of the Order's development, before turning to a detailed assessment of its contemporary struggle for relevance amid political marginalisation, secularism and diminished benefits to its membership. The book charts the views of members on how to adapt to external changes; explor

Book The Religion of Orange Politics

Download or read book The Religion of Orange Politics written by Joseph Webster and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religion of Orange politics is an ethnographic study of the Orange Order in contemporary Scotland. The Order is ultra-Protestant, ultra-British, and ultra-unionist. It is also vehemently anti-Catholic. Drawing on new debates about the politics of hate, this book asks if religious bigotry can ever form part of human experiences of 'The Good'.

Book The Sash Canada Wore

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  • Author : Cecil J. Houston
  • Publisher : Milton, Ont. : Global
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781894378314
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book The Sash Canada Wore written by Cecil J. Houston and published by Milton, Ont. : Global. This book was released on 1999 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orange Order in Canada

Download or read book The Orange Order in Canada written by David A. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book locates Canadian Orangeism in its international context, assesses the activities of the Order in Toronto, the 'Belfast of North America', analyzes the ambivalent relationship of Canadian Orangeism to the crown, discusses Orange influences on Canadian Confederation, and examines the reasons for the Order's decline in the second half of the 20th century. Contents: Don M. MacRaild (UU), "The associationalism of the Orange diaspora;" Eric Kaufmann (U London), "Orange Order in Ontario, Newfoundland, Scotland and N. Ireland;" Brian Clarke (U Toronto), "Parades and public life in Victorian Toronto;" William Jenkins (York U), "Loyal Orange lodges in early 20th-cent. Toronto;" Ian Radforth (U Toronto), "Orangemen and the crown;" David A. Wilson (U Toronto), "Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Orangeism and the new nationality;" John Edward FitzGerald (Memorial U Newfoundland), "The Orange Order and Newfoundland's confederation with Canada, 1948- 9;" Cecil J. Houston (U Windsor) & William J. Smyth (NUIM), "Decline of the Orange Order in Canada, 1905- 2005;" Mark G. McGowan (U Toronto), "Postscript."

Book Descendancy

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  • Author : David Fitzpatrick
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-11-27
  • ISBN : 1107080932
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Descendancy written by David Fitzpatrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of Protestant loss of power and self-confidence in Ireland since 1795, illustrating how 'descendancy' was experienced and perceived.

Book The Formation of the Orange Order  1795 1798

Download or read book The Formation of the Orange Order 1795 1798 written by William Blacker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brilliant Orange

Download or read book Brilliant Orange written by David Winner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird patterns of self-destruction) reflect and embody the country's culture and history. This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society.

Book The Orange Order

Download or read book The Orange Order written by Tony Gray and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orange Order

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  • Author : Eric P. Kaufmann
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2009-04-17
  • ISBN : 0191559679
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Orange Order written by Eric P. Kaufmann and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unprecedented access to the Order's internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland. Kaufmann charts the Order's path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present-day crisis. Along the way, he sketches a portrait of many of Orangeism's leading figures, from ex-Prime Minister John Andrews to Ulster Unionist Party politicians like Martin Smyth, James Molyneaux, and David McNarry, and also includes the highly revealing correspondence with adversaries such as Ian Paisley and David Trimble. Packed with analyses of mass-membership trends and attitudes, the book also takes care to tell the story of the Order from 'below' as well as from above. In the process, it argues that the traditional Unionism of West Ulster is giving way to the more militant Unionism of Antrim and Belfast which is winning the hearts of the younger generation in cities and towns throughout the province.

Book Ireland Since 1939

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  • Author : Henry Patterson
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-02-26
  • ISBN : 1844881040
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Ireland Since 1939 written by Henry Patterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling narrative of contemporary Ireland from one of its most highly respected historians The Ireland of today is a place poised between the divisiveness of deep-seated conflict and the modernizing pull of material prosperity. Though each state's history is strikingly divergent, the mirroring ideologies that fuel them are remarkably symbiotic. With Ireland Since 1939, one of the most distinguished Irish historians working today casts a fresh and unpredictable eye to Ireland's history from World War II up through the present to show how-by putting aside its North/South conflict-Ireland can look forward to a prosperous economic future.