Orange Order

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Orange Order
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Tha Orange Order (officiallie tha Loyal Orange Institution) is a Protestant fraternal order in Norlin Airlan whutch haes lodges in Ingland, Scotland, tha Republic o Airlan, an tha British Commonweal anaa. They wur furst foundit in Coontie Armagh in 1795, amang days o sectarian stramash in the coontie, as a Masonic-kind o fraternity. Its name is a tribute tae King Billy (William o Orange) wha defeated tha airmy o tha Catholic king James II o Airlan in tha Williamite–Jacobite War (1688–1691).

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Orange mairch ïn Glesca (1 Juin 2003)

They oppone Earse unification an Scots unthirldom,[1] are stranglie Unionist[2][3] an hae links wi Ulster Loyalism forbye. Althou tha organisation sees themselves as defendin religious an civil liberties, critics accuse tha Order o baein sectarian, triumphalist,[4][5][6][7] an supremacist.[7][8][9][10] As a Protestant group, they dunnae accept Protestants married tae Roman Catholics.[11][12][13] Their mairchin saison is on Tha Twalt (commemoratin tha Battle o tha Boyne), an althou monie marches gae athoot collieshangie, mairches throu mainlie Catholic and Airish natiounalist nighberhoods cause stramash an affen airt to violence.[14][15]

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