Peter Mulholland

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Two Hundred Years of the Orange Citadel (Part 2)

At the opening of Derryhale Orange Hall, in July 1899, the Reverends Thacker and Austin made what the Portadown News described as being ‘important speeches’. The pair of preachers castigated Portadown Protestants who sold land to, employed, or consorted with ‘Papist rebels’. On February 28th 1900 the good citizens of

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Two Hundred Years in the Orange Citadel

At a Sunday service in June 1795, a Reverend George Maunsell, a magistrate and rector of Drumcree Church, called on his congregation ‘to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in the true spirit of the institution’, by attending a sermon to be given by a Rev. Devine