The Background To Drumcree
The following post has been received from a supporter in Southern Ireland who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. Although not within the geographical remit of this website, the post contains a number of insights into how non-republican Irish men view the attempt by Sinn Féin to erase all manifestations of Loyalist culture. British Movement supports loyal Ulster and those patriots in the South fighting against the Third World invasion of their country. We have nothing but contempt for the Marxists in Sinn Féin.
The highlight of the Loyalist marching season is 12 July, when Orangemen and women take part in parades marking William of Orange’s victory over the Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. During the 1990s, a number of these marches became the focus of disputes, particularly those passing through or near Catholic and ‘nationalist’ communities.
One of the most hotly contested disputes centred on Garvaghy Road in Portadown. The route has formed part of the Orange Order’s annual march from Drumcree Church on the last Sunday before 12 July since 1807. Court of Appeal judges have reserved their ruling on the legal challenge to the Parades Commission’s decision regarding Drumcree. Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan said the court hopes to deliver its verdict within a reasonable timeframe, although she was unable to confirm a specific date for the announcement.
In the days since, Orangemen have made several attempts to set off on their parade, only to be stopped by police each time. Officers have cited fears of public disorder should the march proceed along Garvaghy Road, an area that has seen a succession of large-scale demonstrations and protest rallies. Members of the Portadown District of the Orange Order remain at Drumcree Church, demanding to be allowed to begin their parade.
I was going to write about how Irish Nationalists are spoilt feral Ingrates. We can see this in their hysterical opposition to Drumcree. They have the right to oppose Drumcree. They have the right to counterprotest Drumcree. They do not have the right to prevent Orangemen from peaceably parading on an arterial route into town. The Drumcree parade has already been rerouted, and the Portadown Lodge was promised that it would never be rerouted again.
The Portadown lodge is LOL 1. Arguably, the Orange Order was begun in Portadown (although the early history of the Orange Order, like the early history of Freemasonry is a little sketchy). And so it is surely no coincidence that Irish Nationalists oppose the oldest Orange Lodge, in the Ecclesiastical capital (Armagh) on one of the oldest parading routes.
On my birthday, my Shinner Auntie asked if there were any union flags or orange demonstrations in Monaghan on the 12th. Lamentably I was not born on the 12th but the day after. I laughed at my aunt, and she noted this. The last orange parade in Monaghan was in the 1920s. There was only one parade in the Free State, and then republican thuggery stopped the parade the following year.
Again, were it left to us, the British Irish, we would have fought on to victory in the 1920s, however, as ever, the British Mainland sold us out to our Irish Republican tormentors.
But my laughter illustrates a point. Whereas Northern Ireland is festooned with tricolours, it is not acceptable to fly a union flag or an Ulster banner anywhere in Southern Ireland, even in Monaghan with its large Protestant population. At the time of the Clontibret* invasion – which was an awful act of savagery – it was pointed out by Loyalists, come down to Dundalk to support Peter Robinson, that whereas the tricolour can be flown in the North, the Union flag is not tolerated in the South.
Irish nationalists are a spoilt feral population. They really need to have the law laid down to them. In British jurisprudence, so long as there is no threat to the peace, it is presumed that people may lawfully and peaceably process along the King’s highway. The Garvaghey Road is an arterial route, and the most logical return route for the Orangemen to take. Lamentably, a Southern Irishman, Hugh Annesley, the RUC chief constable, began this debacle in the first place by banning the 1995 March.
In our day, the only people threatening the peace as regards Drumcree are Irish Nationalists. They really need the law laid down to them in no uncertain terms.
In one respect, the Old Stormont was too tolerant. They funded the Catholic schools, even though Catholic (NI) MPs boycotted Stormont; refused to form a loyal opposition. The Roman Catholic Church also boycotted Northern Irish civic life, even though they were invited to play an active role in Northern Irish civic life. Stormont funded its own undermining. Stormont funded the system that would be an Irish Nationalist silo, that would only ever present to its students a strawman version of Unionism and the pro-British position. Here we have the paradox of tolerance: Stormont actively tolerating something that was intolerant of Stormont’s very existence.
Indeed, reading Aoife Moore’s despicable column yesterday, I recognise that she was raised in the same Irish Nationalist silo as I was. Ulster British culture is in the past. Irish Republican culture is of the future. Moore is a columnist for The Irish Times.
She also becomes a part of the Irish Nationalist borg. She declares in her anti-Drumcree screed that a United Ireland is going to happen. In this her mask slips. Drumcree is about a United Ireland, or, rather about demoralising the Ulster British into a United Ireland. The Ulster British community is being actively demoralised, and, ultimately, the British mainland is responsible for this – as Antony Alcock points out in Understanding Ulster. Alcock is a historian and former Ulster Unionist Party MP.
Irish republicanism is the unclean thing that we do not even want to touch. Only our demoralisation would cause us to touch it. And so from Aoife Moore we are told that resistance is futile; we will be assimilated.
Irish Nationalists have lived sullenly in Northern Ireland, refusing to recognise its legitimacy. It has conspired with Irish America to overthrow Northern Ireland militarily. They are MOPE-y hubristic psychotic feral ingrates. My question is: do we really want to annex 1 million of these people? I am a 26-county patriot. I would welcome the 900,000-strong Unionist community into (Southern) Ireland, however, in my view, Irish Nationalists are unassimilable. They are far more alien to us Southern Irishmen than British Unionists are.
Who is to say that they would not be a similar disruptive influence in a 32-county republic?
*The Clontibret invasion was an incursion by Ulster loyalists into the small Monaghan village of Clontibret, in the Republic of Ireland, on 7 August 1986. After crossing the border the loyalists proceeded to vandalise many buildings in the village and attacked two police officers before being dispersed by the Garda Síochána. The incident occurred in the context of unionist opposition to the recently signed Anglo-Irish Agreement. Wikipedia.
Credits:
Main Image: Drumcree church by August Schwerdfeger – Own work, CC BY 4.0.
Lower Image: A rally on the Garvaghy Road rally by Mooedlorre – Own work, CC.
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