The Orange Order

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Orange Order in Northern Ireland and Scotland: Its origins, practices and principles, from the Battle of the Boyne to the Good Friday Agreement.. Laurie Taylor talks to Joseph Webster, Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge, and author of a new book about the Orange Order in Scotland which explores the politics of anti Catholic sectarianism and ultra Britishness, as well as the tensions between grassroots Orangemen and a hierarchy wishing to cultivate a respectable image beyond controversial parades and football hooliganism. Also, Karine Bigand, Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at Aix-Marseille University, considers the history of Orange politics in Northern Ireland and current attempts to memorialise the Orange Order and contribute positively to reconciliation between divided communities post the GFA in 1998. Produced in partnership with the Open University.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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0:47.2	Hello since the end of March this has been the disturbing news from Northern Ireland.
0:53.4	The barrier which is commonly known as a peace line
1:00.6	was anything but peaceful last night.
1:02.8	The war was built many years ago to try to stop clashes between politically divided communities
1:10.1	in West Belfast. But there was trouble on both sides as crowds through petrol bombs,
1:16.2	fireworks and bricks.
1:17.6	The violence began on the loyalist Shankill Rood where protesters had gathered.
1:25.0	A bus was hijacked and set on fire. There were no passengers on board, but the driver was said to be very shaken.
1:31.0	Then across the peace wall in the Springfield Road area
1:35.2	Republican youths rioted. Community representatives tried to calm the
1:40.7	situation. People in Northern Ireland had hopes that scenes of destruction like this belonged well in the past.
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