Showing posts with label Glorious Twelfth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glorious Twelfth. Show all posts
Dr John Coulter  The repercussions of the Jeffrey Donaldson convictions will rumble on for weeks, perhaps months, to come and while we must never forget the suffering of the convicted sex offender’s victims, the current marching season can provide an opportunity to give Unionism some respite amid all the gloom.

Since Donaldson’s guilty verdicts for numerous sex offences, including rape, against two women when they were children were announced last month, more allegations have surfaced about the disgraced former MP’s private life - especially the allegations aired in the hard-hitting BBC Spotlight documentary.

Donaldson was very well known, not just in Unionist political circles, but also in the Loyal Orders and especially in Christian Church circles. The DUP - a party he once led - has launched a supposedly rigorous investigation into ‘who knew what and when’ about the ex-leader’s private life.

In terms of the specific trial, the testimonies of the two women Donaldson abused when they were children - known as Complainant A and Complainant B - shocked many, many people. As even more post-verdict allegations emerged, hundreds of folk must have been asking the same questions - who was the real Jeffrey Donaldson; who got a hint of these allegations; and who allegedly kept quiet about them or turned a blind eye?

And it will not only be the DUP and the UUP who will have to face these questions. Donaldson also held rank within the Loyal Orders, especially the Orange. Did anyone within the Orders know of Donaldson’s secret persona?

And then there’s the Christian churches and places of worship. Again, like the probing questions which the DUP, UUP, and Loyal Orders will have to address, do any Christian folk who mixed with Donaldson on the preaching and testimony circuits have awkward questions to answer?

However, the bottom line still remains that everyone should keep the victims of Donaldson’s sexual crimes in their thoughts and prayers. Even if you don’t believe in God, you should still spare a thought for Complainants A and B - and any other alleged victims which may emerge in the coming days.

Many folk who knew Donaldson personally may be asking themselves - was there anything, any triggers, which they missed, which could have unmasked his vile behaviour earlier in life?

While we’ve already enjoyed the colour and pageantry of the 1st July Somme commemoration parades, affectionately known in many circles as the Mini Twelfth parades, will the Donaldson saga and the horrors of what Complainants A and B had to endure both as children and during the trial cast a dark shadow over the Twelfth commemorations?

When the Orangemen, Orange women, band members and the public reach the respective demonstration fields next week, will the talk still be about ‘who knew what’ concerning Donaldson, or will the expected heatwave lift spirits - even for a day.

Even more pointedly, given Donaldson’s once high profile in the Loyal Orders, will anyone dare to mention the issue in their demonstration speeches or comments? Or, at the Twelfth parades and the traditional Sham Fight at Scarva, will talk of Donaldson - privately or publicly - become like Voldemort from the Harry Potter series - the name that must never be spoken?

The judge at Donaldson’s trial after the jury gave their guilty verdicts said the former DUP boss could expect a lengthy jail term for his crimes. I wonder how many folk will now utter the prophetic words - “I always knew there was something fishy about Donaldson!”

Will these folks, especially those in politics, the Church and the Loyal Orders, be pondering over their various meetings with Donaldson to see if they could remember a hint about his private life?

Many will ask - did the mask of the good-living, born again Christian husband, well-polished politician ever slip ever so slightly in front of them even on just one wee occasion?

Does anyone in the political arena, Christian Churches and Loyal Orders feel any sense of guilt that they did not spot any hint of Donaldson’s private life and could have formally reported it?

Many, too, especially in Christian and Loyal Order circles, will feel a sense of embarrassment at the court convictions and post-trial allegations that every Christian and Orange Order member has become wrongly tarnished with the same brush.

Is it possible the Orange and Black parades in the coming days could give the Unionist community ‘a wee lift’, or is it a case that the demise of Donaldson has cast such a shadow over Orangeism and the Royal Black Institution that there’s a feeling - let’s just get this year’s Marching Season over and done with as soon as possible.
 
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Loyal Order Parades Could Lift Gloom Of Donaldson Saga For Unionism

Dr John Coulter✍ The time has surely come in this supposed era of the peace process for Catholics to embrace the Twelfth celebrations and recognise the significance of William’s campaign in Ireland in 1690.

The Orange Order, although it is an exclusively Protestant organisation by denomination, has made tremendous strides in recent years to make the 12 July demonstrations and parades a truly family occasion which folk from any religious tradition - Christian and non-Christian - can enjoy.

Part of the problem is the perception that Orangeism has weaponised the Twelfth in the same way that Sinn Fein has weaponised the Irish language.

Sinn Fein politicians and activists seem rather quiet when it comes to promoting an excellent historical work by the author Roger Blaney, who penned an absorbing account entitled ‘Presbyterians and the Irish Language.’

My personal reading of Blaney’s work is that it was us Presbyterians who saved the Irish language from extinction, so the pro-Union community in Northern Ireland should not let militant republicanism portray the language as only being part of the nationalist tradition.

In political terms, too, I don’t think the republican movement will be keen to promote another excellent work by John Biggs-Davison and George Chowdharay-Best entitled ‘The Cross of St Patrick: The Catholic Unionist Tradition in Ireland.’

When the events of the actual Battle of the Boyne in 1690 are analysed in terms of historical context, one conclusion is clear - Catholicism in Ireland needs to embrace its Boyne heritage. The real problem is how to go about it!

The real issue is that there is a false perception that all of William’s army was Protestant, and all of James’ army was Catholic. It would be the height of folly to dismiss the outcome of the Boyne battle as ‘one-nil to the Prods’.

It must be remembered that William was married to James’ daughter Mary and that after the Boyne victory, William deliberately delayed his move even deeper into what is Southern Ireland to ensure his father-in-law escaped to France.

In this sense, the Boyne was part of a much larger political picture in what is now the British Isles. The late 17th century conflict is sometimes referred to as the War of English Succession. William’s military victory laid the foundation stones for modern parliamentary democracy.

On a wider European front, the Boyne battle was a key milestone in the War of the League of Augsburg in which William was a key military commander in the Grand Alliance - which included the Papacy - against the dictator of the day, Louis of France.

It seems to have been conveniently airbrushed out of history that the Pope of the day in 1690, Alexander the Eighth, held a special Te Deum on hearing of William’s victory.

James was essentially Louis’s wee puppet king and had the former won the Boyne showdown, Ireland would have become a key strategic landing point for Louis to invade England.

While the lyrics of The Sash point to other strategic battles in the Williamite campaign, such as the Siege of Londonderry, and the battles of Enniskillen and Aughrim, it was the military bloody nose which William ultimately delivered to Louis’s invasion plans which turned the tide of the war in both the British Isles and mainland Europe.

Louis, like the 20th century despots such as Kaiser Bill and Adolf Hitler in Germany, wanted to expand the French empire as much as possible. But to do so, Louis had to comprehensively defeat the Grand Alliance.

Had James won the Boyne, that would have laid the foundation stones, not for modern democracy, but for a French dictatorship which would have made Emperor Napoleon’s campaign in the 19th century seem like a Sunday school picnic.

Likewise, in military terms, William’s elite forces were known as the Dutch Royal Blues, who were predominantly Catholic by faith.

Indeed, had it not been for the ability of the Dutch Royal Blues to cross the River Boyne itself, the military outcome of the battle could have been radically different, given that William was himself wounded in a Jacobite cannon ambush whilst having breakfast before the actual battle itself.

In spite of these historical facts, the issue still remains for both Catholicism and Orangeism - how to make the Twelfth more inclusive?

The Orange Order has also made strides to eradicate the perception that St Patrick’s Day is only part of the republican heritage. It must never be forgotten that St Patrick brought the Christian faith to Ireland, not militant Irish nationalism.

Given Alexander the Eighth’s Te Deum, is there any movement between the Loyal Order leaderships and the leadership of the Irish Catholic Church to make the Boyne celebrations more inclusive without such a move being branded by fundamentalists as bowing the knee to the ecumenical movement?

The more worrying point would be that there may be folk on both sides of the religious divide that it suits their respective agendas to portray the Twelfth as a ‘Prods only’ celebration.

Just as Irish Freemasonry embraces people of all religions, could a day ever come whereby Catholics could parade on the Twelfth in a lodge or organisation dedicated to the heroic deeds of the Dutch Royal Blues - or is that a step too far?

The Twelfth, like St Patrick’s Day, the Somme commemoration, Catholics who served gallantly with the British Armed Forces, and even the Presbyterians who fought in the United Irishmen’s rebellion of 1798, have unfortunately all been the subject of historical revisionism.

For political agendas, it is still too convenient to airbrush facts under the carpet of history.
 
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Time For Catholics To Embrace Their Boyne Heritage

Dr John Coulter ✍ Given that fewer and fewer Loyal Order parades are are viewed as contentious, the time has come for the Glorious Twelfth to be made a national holiday right throughout the British Isles.

The historical significance of William’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 has been lost in a sea of political point scoring, just as Presbyterianism’s role in saving the Irish language from extinction has been cleverly airbrushed out of modern history by republicanism.

Sections of Irish nationalism and republicanism are quite content to spread the myth that the Orange Order, and the 12 July celebrations, are a sectarian coat training exercise more akin to a Ku Klux Klan event in America’s Deep South.

Earlier this month, Sinn Fein became the largest Northern Ireland party at Westminster by retaining its seven seats in the General Election. In spite of having a military wing, the Provisional IRA, which was responsible for the murder of a number of Westminster MPs during the Troubles, Sinn Fein enjoyed its electoral success as an indirect result of William’s Boyne victory.

Because of that victory on the shores of the River Boyne in 1690, William’s success laid the foundation stones for British Parliamentary democracy which is the envy of many modern Western European nations.

In today’s Northern Ireland, it’s all too easy to dismiss the Twelfth as a ‘Prods only’ event, and then again, only by Protestants who vote or support Unionist parties.

What republicanism wants folk to conveniently forget is the big picture of Europe in the late 17th century. The big bull of the woods was Louis XIV of France, who was that century’s version of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in terms of his expansion plans across Europe.

William’s father in law was James II of England and the former’s military opponent at the Boyne. It was also be able to dismiss the Boyne as an internal family feud as William was married to James’ daughter, Mary.

However, James was Louis’s wee political puppet. Even the pope of the day, Alexander VIII, feared the expansionist plans of the French king. The papacy feared Louis wanted to grab as much papal territory as possible to create the 17th century version of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Indeed, when news reached Rome of William’s victory over James at the Boyne, Alexander ordered a Te Deum be celebrated in honour of the Protestant king’s military bloody nose to Louis.

While there were other significant battles as part of the Williamite campaign in Ireland, such as Aughrim the following year in 1691, it was the Boyne which effectively militarily halted the Louis juggernaut across Europe.

As for the Boyne battle itself, there is the misconception that all of William’s army was Protestant, while James - himself a Catholic - commanded only Catholic troops.

When William landed in Ireland a month before the Boyne showdown, he brought with him his elite troops from Holland - the Dutch Royal Blues, who were predominantly Catholic.

They were William’s ‘special forces’ and one of the first units to cross the River Boyne. It was the actions of the Dutch Royal Blues which militarily sealed victory for the Williamite forces.

Such was the scale of the Williamite victory that day 1 July 1690 (according to the old calendar), that William could easily have captured his rival.

However, because James was his father in law, he allowed the defeated king to escape to Dublin and on to France to seek the protection of dictator Louis.

In Irish history terms, the Boyne (which is located in the Irish Republic with a magnificent visitors’ centre) sealed the direction of what was to become known as the Glorious Revolution.

In guaranteeing a future for modern parliamentary democracy, with William and Mary now on the London throne, the Boyne ensured victory in what was known as the War of English Succession.

William believed passionately in the concept of parliamentary democracy rather than James or Louis to held to the outdated notion of rule by divine right.

In the wider European scene, the Boyne was part of the War of the League of Augsburg with William as the head of a coalition of nations determined to stop Louis roaming militarily across Europe.

Presently, 12 July is only a national holiday in Northern Ireland. But given the significance of the Boyne in Irish, British and European history, there is a real need for it to be recognised as a national holiday right across the entire British Isles of the UK and Eire in much the same was as 4 July, Independence Day, is celebrated across every state in the USA.

The Boyne battle is annually marked in the Republic traditionally on the Saturday before the 12 July when Southern Irish county lodges gather with many from Northern Ireland at Rossnowlagh for the so-called Donegal Dander in the seaside village.

Likewise, the Loyal Orders’ senior order, the Royal Black Institution, hosts the annual Sham Fight in Scarva, at which it is estimated some 100,000 people pack the Co Down village for the parade, platform proceedings, and of course, the re-enactment of the battle.

Before this year’s Twelfth, the Imperial Orange Council of the World held its meeting in Co Fermanagh, emphasising the support which Orangeism has throughout the globe.

This is not a rewriting of history, or even spin revisionism. To make the 12 July a national holiday for all throughout the geographical British Isles would merely be a well-earned recognition of the democratic importance of that military encounter on the banks of the Boyne in 1690.
 
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Make Twelfth A National Holiday In UK And Eire

Dr John Coulter ✒ Tomorrow marks The Glorious Twelfth, the high point of the exclusively Protestant Orange Order’s marching season. TPQ Monday Political commentator examines the concept if Boyne commemorations could ever become as inclusive celebrations as Christmas and Easter.

John Coulter @ Battle of the Boyne
Visitors Centre, Oldbridge in Co Meath.

In spite of the challenges created by the Covid pandemic, the Orange Order will be marking the anniversary of Protestant King William’s victory at the River Boyne over his Catholic father in law, James, with a series of localised parades.

Unlike the era of the pandemic restrictions, there will be platform proceedings at the so-called ‘demonstration fields’ as took place in 2019 pre-Covid.

Ireland, north and south, has suffered greatly because of the pandemic, and the medical experts are now warning us that Covid is still on the loose in society.

Again, in spite of all the death and tragedy which the pandemic has inflicted on this island, can there be lessons which the Orange Order’s ruling body, the Grand Lodge of Ireland, can take from organising parades if, as a society, we have the face the reality of ‘living with Covid’?

My late father, Rev Dr Robert Coulter MBE, served as a Deputy Imperial Grand Chaplain in both the Orange and its senior order, the Royal Black Institution. Indeed, in the 1980s, he served a three-year term as Assistant Sovereign Grand Master of the Black.

In these various Loyal Order roles, he would make frequent trips to the Republic of Ireland to preach at annual divine services in churches. Likewise, as a Presbyterian minister, he also preached in numerous churches across the Donegal Presbytery for several years.

In spite of the legion of Loyal Order events he attended during his lifetime, there was one occasion he chatted about perhaps the most to me - the annual pre-Twelfth demonstration at Rossnowlagh in County Donegal.

The Rossnowlagh demonstration was held in that picturesque coastal village on the Saturday before 12 July and was hosted by the Southern Irish border county lodges to allow them to attend the main Twelfth demonstrations in Northern Ireland on 12 July itself.

The parade route was neither long nor contentious. In my various writings on the event, I have often referred to it as the ‘Donegal Dander.’

Pipe and silver bands, rather than the traditional Northern-based flute bands - often known as blood and thunder bands - are the order of the day. There are no political speeches, and the platform proceedings take the form of a purely religious service.

And no trip to the Rossnowlagh ‘Twelfth’ would be complete without an ice cream and another dander along the village’s beautiful beach.

In spite of the long drive from our home in the County Antrim hills to Rossnowlagh as dad was the guest preacher that Saturday, dad and I could not fail to appreciate the relaxed family atmosphere of the Rossnowlagh ‘demonstration.’

Perhaps this is the reason, pre-Covid, that the Rossnowlagh event grew in popularity over the decades as an increasing number of Northerners have attended the County Donegal Grand Orange Lodge’s prestigious ‘outing’.

In short, could the ‘Rossnowlagh Model’ be used as a blueprint, not just for future parades in Northern Ireland, but to increase the number of Loyal Order parades in the Republic of Ireland? The two key pillars of the success of Rossnowlagh are a short parade route, and only a religious service.

The vast majority of Unionists and Loyalists view the Northern Ireland Protocol as a threat to their British identity. But for generations, many of those same Unionists and Loyalists have seemingly ignored their rich Southern Irish culture.

Put bluntly, half of the key battles referred to in that famous marching tune, The Sash, took place in Southern Ireland. The Boyne of 1690 was at County Meath, while the decisive and exceptionally bloody battle of Aughrim in July 1691 was fought in County Galway.

Again put bluntly, how many Unionists and Loyalists have regularly visited - or even once - the excellent Battle of the Boyne Visitors Centre at Oldbridge in Co Meath?

As a location for a fantastic family fun day out, the River Boyne, and especially the facilities of the visitors centre is exceptionally highly rated.

Ironically, it was only the smaller Independent Orange Order which managed to stage a parade at the Boyne to mark the Tercentenary of the battle some years ago.

If the Orange’s ruling body calls itself the Grand Lodge of Ireland, then it should be giving more recognition to organising Rossnowlagh-style parades south of the Irish Border. Could the ‘Donegal Dander’ be one way of making the Twelfth celebrations more inclusive for all sections of the community?

In helping the economy of the island recover in a ‘living with Covid’ society, how much money could be generated for local businesses if another Sham Fight - traditionally held in the Co Down village of Scarva by the Royal Black Institution each 13 July - could be staged annually at Oldbridge in County Meath?

In spite of the pain of the pandemic, the Loyal Orders have been reached a gift horse on a plate in the battle to make their events more inclusive - culturally, historically, spiritually, and family-wise. Hopefully, they will have the good sense to seize this opportunity and implement a future ‘Rossnowagh Model.’

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Can A Totally Inclusive Twelfth Ever Be Accomplished?

Today marks The Glorious Twelfth, the high point of the exclusively Protestant Orange Order’s marching season. Political commentator, Dr John Coulter, examines the concept if Boyne commemorations could ever become as inclusive celebrations as Christmas and Easter.

John Coulter at the Battle of the Boyne
Visitors Centre at Oldbridge in Co Meath.  
In spite of the challenges created by the Covid pandemic, subject to restrictions, the Orange Order will be marking the anniversary of Protestant King William’s victory at the River Boyne over his Catholic father in law, James, with a series of localised parades.

There will be no platform proceedings at the so-called ‘demonstration fields’ as took place in 2019 pre-Covid.

Ireland, north and south, has suffered greatly because of the pandemic, and the experts are now warning us that we are in a fourth wave because of the so-called Delta variant.

Again, in spite of all the death and tragedy which the pandemic has inflicted on this island, can there be lessons which the Orange Order’s ruling body, the Grand Lodge of Ireland, can take from organising parades if, as a society, we have to face the reality of ‘living with Covid’?

My late father, Rev Dr Robert Coulter MBE, served as a Deputy Imperial Grand Chaplain in both the Orange and its senior order, the Royal Black Institution. Indeed, in the 1980s, he served a three-year term as Assistant Sovereign Grand Master of the Black.

In these various Loyal Order roles, he would make frequent trips to the Republic of Ireland to preach at annual divine services in churches. Likewise, as a Presbyterian minister, he also preached in numerous churches across the Donegal Presbytery for several years.

In spite of the legion of Loyal Order events he attended during his lifetime, there was one occasion he chatted about perhaps the most to me - the annual pre-Twelfth demonstration at Rossnowlagh in County Donegal.

The Rossnowlagh demonstration was held in that picturesque coastal village on the Saturday before 12 July and was hosted by the Southern Irish border county lodges to allow them to attend the main Twelfth demonstrations in Northern Ireland on 12 July itself.

The parade route was neither long nor contentious. In my various writings on the event, I have often referred to it as the ‘Donegal Dander.’

Pipe and silver bands, rather than the traditional Northern-based flute bands - often known as blood and thunder bands - are the order of the day. There are no political speeches, and the platform proceedings take the form of a purely religious service.

And no trip to the Rossnowlagh ‘Twelfth’ would be complete without an ice cream and another dander along the village’s beautiful beach.

In spite of the long drive from our home in the County Antrim hills to Rossnowlagh as dad was the guest preacher that Saturday, dad and I could not fail to appreciate the relaxed family atmosphere of the Rossnowlagh ‘demonstration.’

Perhaps this is the reason, pre-Covid, that the Rossnowlagh event has grown in popularity over the decades as an increasing number of Northerners have attended the County Donegal Grand Orange Lodge’s prestigious ‘outing’.

One of the hallmark phrases of the Troubles has been ‘contentious parades’. From time to time, all the organisations which comprise the Loyal Orders - Orange, Black and Apprentice Boys - have all had to deal with opposition to parade routes. Indeed, Drumcree in Portadown, which began in 1995, has still not been resolved.

My own political ideology of Revolutionary Unionism, which I have been developing since 1994, focuses on trying to get Unionism and Loyalism to ‘think outside the box’ and recognise its Southern Irish heritage, culture and historical identity.

In short, could the ‘Rossnowlagh Model’ be used as a blueprint, not just for future parades in Northern Ireland, but to increase the number of Loyal Order parades in the Republic of Ireland? The two key pillars of the success of Rossnowlagh are a short parade route, and only a religious service.

The vast majority of Unionists and Loyalists view the Northern Ireland Protocol as a threat to their British identity. But for generations, many of those same Unionists and Loyalists have seemingly ignored their rich Southern Irish culture.

Put bluntly, half of the key battles referred to in that famous marching tune, The Sash, took place in Southern Ireland. The Boyne of 1690 was at County Meath, while the decisive and exceptionally bloody battle of Aughrim in July 1691 was fought in County Galway.

Again put bluntly, how many Unionists and Loyalists have regularly visited - or even once - the excellent Battle of the Boyne Visitors Centre at Oldbridge in Co Meath.

As a location for a fantastic family fun day out, the River Boyne, and especially the facilities of the visitors centre is exceptionally highly rated.

Ironically, it was only the smaller Independent Orange Order which managed to stage a parade at the Boyne to mark the Tercentenary of the battle some years ago.

If the Orange’s ruling body calls itself the Grand Lodge of Ireland, then it should be giving more recognition to organising Rossnowlagh-style parades south of the Irish Border. Could the ‘Donegal Dander’ being one way of making the Twelfth celebrations more inclusive for all sections of the community?

The challenge for the Orders is not just to make their parades more inclusive to a nationalist audience, but also to the increasingly liberal progressive section of Protestantism, as well as the growing ethnic communities within the island of Ireland.

In the Eighties, I recall reporting on the meeting of the Grand Black Chapter of the British Commonwealth at Lurgan in County Armagh at which representatives from the Royal Black Institution from the African states of Togo and Ghana were present.

Many Unionists and Loyalists seem to conveniently forget that King Billy’s elite troops at the Boyne were the Dutch Royal Blues, who were predominantly Catholic.

When the pope of the day, Alexander the Eighth, heard about William’s victory at the Boyne, he ordered a Te Deum to be commemorated at the Vatican as the Williamite victory firmly put the brakes on the tyrant Catholic King Louis of France’s ambitions to overthrow the Papacy.

Even William delayed his army’s advance on Dublin after the Boyne victory to allow time for his Catholic opponent, King James, to escape Ireland.

The Williamite campaign in Ireland paved the way for modern parliamentary democracy across the British Isles, a campaign known as the Glorious Revolution, much of which was achieved in what is Southern Ireland today.

Historically, it ended the tyrannical rule of Absolute Monarchy in Great Britain, and in Europe, it saved the Papacy from annihilation by the dictator Louis of France.

Pre-Covid, the traditional Sham Fight re-enactment of the Boyne battle in the Northern village of Scarva each 13 July is known to attract some 60,000 participants and spectators as the traditional marching season switches from events staged by the Orange to those of the Black.

In helping the economy of the island recover in a post Covid society, how much money could be generated for local businesses if another Sham Fight could be staged annually at Oldbridge in County Meath?

In spite of the pain of the pandemic, the Loyal Orders have been reached a gift horse on a plate in the battle to make their events more inclusive - culturally, historically, spiritually, and family-wise. Hopefully, they will have the good sense to seize this opportunity and implement a future ‘Rossnowagh Model.’ 

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Can A Totally Inclusive Twelfth Ever Be Accomplished?