Tag Archives: Orange Order

Culture Wars? A Bad Thing?

Posted on July 12, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Up and down Norn Iron today, Orange leaders are proclaiming that their “Culture” is under attack. But is it actually a “Culture” we can afford to tolerate. Should we…liberal minded people…be working to marginalise that “Culture” rather like we did … Continue reading →

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It’s Commemorating ….Commemorating

Posted on July 12, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Its. 8.30am on 12th July 2013. How is the Twelfth going for you?…a day for us all as the absentee editor of Slugger O’Toole puts it. But I might have taken it out of context. We all have a role … Continue reading →

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Parades Commission Ruling

Posted on July 10, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Three days to the Twelfth. The Parades Commission has ruled that the Orange Order cannot return home via the Ardoyne Shops. Of course that decision might be reversed. Good news for nationalists. Bad news for unionists. Zero Sum. Thats how … Continue reading →

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It’s Zero Sum Stupid!

Posted on May 31, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Bad week for nationalism. Hence the gloating on Slugger O’Toole and the admiration there for Jim Allister of the TUV. He socked it to Sinn Fein this week or to paraphrase Slugger …it was a victory for common sense and … Continue reading →

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Orange Order Has Cunning Plan

Posted on March 19, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

The Orange Order has a cunning plan…not quite sure if it is “cunning” in the Baldrick sense of the word….or in the Blackadder sense of a fox who is Professor of Cunning at Oxford University. Most towns have town parks. … Continue reading →

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A Bad Marching Season Is A Good One.

Posted on February 22, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Last night on BBCs “The View” Chris Ryder and Brian Feeney warned that it would be a bad marching season. Of course there is the potential for widespread violence and even deaths. And I am aware I speak in relative … Continue reading →

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Matryoshka Dolls And Unionism

Posted on January 19, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Wearing my other hat as Conspiracy Theorist, I have decided to explain Unionism by reference to Matryoshka/Babushka Dolls…and your spelling is probably better than mine because I am too lazy to look up Wikipedia. This set was bought by me … Continue reading →

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The Myth Of Shared History?

Posted on September 27, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

A few years ago, there was some controversy over either the 60th Anniversary of “D Day” in 2004. Or maybe it was about the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War Two……..Maybe it was both. Anyway these are jamborees … Continue reading →

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Ooops They Did It Again

Posted on September 25, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Over on his own Blog the peerless Mr BangorDub draws attention to the Orange Orders demand that “Ulster Scots” have a vote in any Referendum on Scottish Independence. http://bangordub.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/lets-all-vote-together/ Aside from the nightmare of actually working out who is real … Continue reading →

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Out-Greening Sinn Féin?

Posted on September 24, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

If you were a core-team blogger on a letsgetalongerist anti-SDLP weblog………a weblog of record……..how exactly would you set the narrative for todays “McCausland vote”. Well of course there is no such weblog 😉   but lets say that you cannot really … Continue reading →

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