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The Orange Lodges, have flourished as fraternal societies in the British Army in nearly every part of the English-speaking world. This study, originally published in 1966, deals with the founding of the movement in County Armagh just prior to the rebellion of 1798, and traces its history through the first forty years of its existence.
List of contents
Part 1: The Background and Origin of the Orange Lodges Part 2. The Growth of Orangeism Amongst the Peasantry, 1795-6 1. The Castle and Its Enemies 2. The Armagh Outrages 3. The Dungannon Plan 4. The United Irish Movement Spreads to the South Part 3: Gentry Support of Orangeism, 1796-7 1. United Irish Military Strength 2. Crown Forces 3. The Raising of the Yeomanry, 1796-7 4. The disarming of Ulster 1797 5. Military Incidents 6. Dublin Lodge Supported by Protestant Party Part 4: The Rebellion of 1798 1. The Orange Bogey 2. Grand Lodge Effort to Control the Orangemen 4. The Suppression of the Rebellion 5. The Cornwallis Administration Part 5: Union with Great Britain, 1799-1801 Part 6: The Consolidation of the Orange Movement, 1800-3 Part 7: British Orange Lodges, 1798-1822 Part 8: Orangeism in Ireland, 1803-25 1. The War Years 2. The Ebb-Tide of Orangeism 3. The Wellesley Administration 4. O’Connell and the Catholic Association Part 9: Orange Resistance to Catholic Emancipation, 1825-9 Part 10. Repeal, Parliamentary Reform, and the Tithe War, 1830-4 Part 11: Orange Conspiracy, 1831-6 Part 12: In Retrospect.
About the author
Hereward Senior was Professor of History at McGill University.
Summary
The Orange Lodges, have flourished as fraternal societies in the British Army in nearly every part of the English-speaking world. This study, originally published in 1966, deals with the founding of the movement in County Armagh just prior to the rebellion of 1798, and traces its history through the first forty years of its existence.
