27 Facts About Orange Institution

Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland and primarily associated with Ulster Protestants, particularly those of Ulster Scots heritage.

The Orange Order was founded by Ulster Protestants in County Armagh in 1795, during a period of Protestant–Catholic sectarian conflict, as a fraternity sworn to maintain the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.

Orange Institution Order is a conservative, British unionist and Ulster loyalist organisation.

In particular, the Orange Institution remembers the victories of William III and his forces in Ireland in the early 1690s, especially the Battle of the Boyne.

At the start the Orange Institution Order was a "parallel organisation" to the Defenders in that it was a secret oath-bound society that used passwords and signs.

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Orange Institution says that a determination was expressed to "driving from this quarter of the county the entire of its Roman Catholic population", with notices posted warning them "to Hell or Connaught".

The first Orange Institution lodge was established in nearby Dyan, and its first grandmaster was James Sloan of Loughgall.

Many Catholics supported the Act, but the Orange Institution Order saw it as a threat to the "Protestant constitution" and 36 lodges in counties Armagh and Monaghan alone passed declarations opposing the Union.

From this moment on, the Orange Institution Order re-emerged in a new and even more militant form.

Orange Institution Order had a central place in the new state of Northern Ireland.

Basis of the modern Orange Institution Order is the promotion and propagation of "biblical Protestantism" and the principles of the Reformation.

In 1905, when the Ulster Unionist Council was formed, the Orange Institution Order was entitled to send delegates to its meetings.

In December 2009, the Orange Institution Order held secret talks with Northern Ireland's two main unionist parties, the DUP and UUP.

Orange Institution said that the Order has members "who represent all the many shades of unionism" and warned, "we will continue to dilute the union if we fight and bicker among ourselves".

Orange Institution said: "Linking the Catholic community or indeed any community to terror groups is inciting weak-minded people to hatred, and surely history tells us what that has led to in the past".

Orange Institution Order has been criticised for associating with loyalist paramilitary groups such as the UVF and UDA, which are classified as terrorist organisations.

Orange Institution's successor as Scottish UDA commander, James Hamilton, was an Orangeman.

Portadown Orange Institution Lodge said it could not stop such people from gathering, but added that it welcomed any support.

Independent Orange Institution was formed in 1903 by Thomas Sloan, who opposed the main Order's domination by Unionist Party politicians and the upper classes.

Orange Institution Order was brought to other parts of the English-speaking world by Ulster Protestant migrants and missionaries.

The Imperial Grand Orange Institution Council is made up of representatives from all of these various Grand Lodges.

In February 2008 it was announced that the Orange Institution Order was to be granted nearly €250,000 from the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

Scotland's first Orange Institution lodges were founded in 1798 by soldiers returning home from Ireland, where they had helped suppress an Irish republican rebellion.

Orange Institution Order reached England in 1807, spread by soldiers returning to the Manchester area from service in Ireland.

The Orange Institution Lodges were seen as community cultural centres, as they hosted numerous dances, events, parades, and even the teaching of step dancing.

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Participation in the Orange Institution was not as large in the United States as it was in Canada.

New Zealand's first Orange Institution lodge was founded in Auckland in 1842, only two years after the country became part of the British Empire, by James Carlton Hill of County Wicklow.