Faith, Fraternity & Fighting The Orange Order and Irish Migrants In Northern England, C.1850-1920

by MacRaild, Donald M.

• ISBN13: 9780853239390
• ISBN10: 0853239398
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This book fills one of the most significant gaps in modern British historiography. Despite its public profile, the Orange Order has not attracted commensurate scholarly attention. Uncritical apologists apart, historians have displayed condescending censure, stigmatising and dismissing the Order as sectarian - a term unduly restricted in their studies to violence and demonstrations. Having gained unique access to lodge membership records, MacRaild provides a timely corrective. MacRaild makes excellent use of archive material to provide a fascinating study of ‘diasporic' Orangeism, showing how it was imported into mainland Britain and implanted within working-class communities as a ‘way of life', able to attract adherents with no obvious Irish provenance or connection (the Toxteth lodge in North West England has a not insignificant black presence.) Impeccably researched and expertly written, Faith, Fraternity and Fighting is a major achievement and an important step in rescuing Orangeism from the stigma of sectariansim

Author Biography

Donald M. MacRaild is Professor of history at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	viii
Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(15)
Chapter 1 The Meaning and Context of Northern England's Orange Order	16	(20)
Chapter 2 The Development of Orangeism in Northern England	36	(35)
Chapter 3 The Anatomy of Orangeism	71	(38)
Chapter 4 'Trunks without Heads'? The Composition of Northern England's Orange Order	109	(47)
Chapter 5 Marching, Meeting and Rioting: The Public Face of Orangeism	156	(44)
Chapter 6 Money and Mutualism	200	(42)
Chapter 7 'Heart, Pocket and Hand': Unionist Politics and the Orange Order	242	(44)
Chapter 8 An Orange Diaspora	286	(35)
Bibliography	321	(19)
Index	340