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Faith & Liberty Issue 1 now available!
September 1, 2010 News, OrangeismWe are very proud to announce the release of the very first edition of Faith & Liberty Magazine. You can download a PDF version of it here, free of charge. We are in the process of getting hard copies of this magazine printed within the next few weeks. The magazine will be available from ourselves [...]
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New Website & News
August 19, 2010 NewsYou’re looking at it – the new Dublin & Wicklow Website. Hopefully easier to navigate through and read than the previous which in all fairness, was our first stab at wordpress for anything more than a blog. This website has been a great success by all accounts. We’ve had a lot of very good comments [...]
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Culture and Identity
August 18, 2010 CultureDiscussion and debate about culture and identity has come more and more to the fore within the Unionist community in recent years. For many of us ‘older generation’ Unionists, who do not see ‘culture’ merely in terms of politics and religion, the discussion has been fairly comfortable to handle. For many of the younger generations [...]
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The unmentionable minority…
August 18, 2010 Culture, News, OrangeismSpeaking at the MacGill Summer School in Co Donegal, Michael McDowell, the former PD leader and Minister for Justice called for a Public Hoilday in the Republic for the 12th of July. He said that “said that if we were genuine republicans and if the orange panel in the flag meant anything, then we had [...]
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Dublin Cleric celebrates 50th anniversary of his Ordination
August 18, 2010 News, OrangeismDublin Church of Ireland cleric, the Rev Gerry Sproule, recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of his Ordination on 26th June 2010. Brought up in Co Wicklow, he joined LOL No 1377 in the Dublin and Wicklow District in 1945. Currently a member of Listullycurran LOL No 616 and Deputy District Chaplain of Lower Iveagh District No [...]
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Rev. Dr. Stafford Carson tells of his recent visit to the Boyne
August 5, 2010 NewsFormer Presbyterian Moderator, Rev. Dr. Stafford Carson tells of his recent visit to the Boyne. “We had a good day out recently at Oldbridge House on the site of the Battle of the Boyne. It was a lovely afternoon and we were able to take in the tour of the house and the audio-visual presentation [...]
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Rossnowlagh Speech by Rev. S.T.R. Gamble
July 15, 2010 OrangeismWe meet today to give thanks to God for the civil and religious freedoms which we enjoy, and to promote and celebrate the events of the Glorious Revolution 1688-1690. The Glorious Revolution was not an Irish affair, not a battle between Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Nationalist, not even a battle between the British and [...]
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Orangeman in Dublin, a Radio 1 Documentary
July 8, 2010 Audio, Culture, News, Orangeism‘I see myself as a Royalist, as a member of the Orange Order I see the sovereign as the keystone. I have to be loyal to the country I live in and I’m happy to call myself Irish, but the sovereign Queen Elizabeth II I see as the keystone to a stable society. It’s my [...]
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Equal Citizenship Rights for the southern Minority
July 2, 2010 CommentNationalists in the south got a nation. Ulster Unionists got a country. Nationalists in Northern Ireland have had their identity legitimized by both governments by being given access to Irish citizenship. But what about us? You’d think that the natural progression from St Andrews and the Good Friday Agreement, with all it’s talking about healing [...]
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HM Queen Irish State Visit 2011
June 23, 2010 Comment, NewsHM Queen will pay her first state visit to Republic of Ireland before the end of next year, the Irish Government has revealed. Dublin and Wicklow L.O.L. 1313 have been working behind the scenes and calling for this to happen for a number of years now and are hopeful that the ever increasing special relationship [...]
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DUBLIN & WICKLOW Orange lodge is (at present) the most southerly lodge in the Orange Institution of Ireland. We are a forward thinking, modern lodge providing fellowship and friendship for the wider Protestant community in 21st century Ireland. 
