Word: orangemen
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Tommy got off at Dundalk, just south of the border. He works in England--many Irishmen have to--as an apprentice electrician, but his holiday was scheduled for the same two weeks all Orangemen in Northern Ireland take off, and he didn't want to go back for their festivities. Not when he'd have to take the antipapist slogans lying down...
...aren't any elaborately-decorated floats, no gas-filled balloons of cartoon characters. It is a parade in the traditional sense; the men get dressed up in dark suits and parade themselves, adorned in black bowlers and umbrellas, with orange sashes over their shoulders. This year, over 100,000 Orangemen walked through Belfast's center and out to Edenderry Field to hear the July 12 speeches and more than a quarter of a million people lined the streets to watch the parade...
...wore on the parade was a still a grand affair, but it had lost a lot of its solemnity as the Orangemen got drunk and tired. By the time the I reached Edenderry Field, suitcoats were off, bowlers tipped back, ties pulled down and disordered. Edenderry is an expansive horseshoe-shaped slope and the speakers' platform was tucked away in one corner under some trees--almost, it seemed, on purpose. Most of the revelers just lounged around on the grass, eating, drinking, or trying to get over hangovers from drinking earlier in the day. And only a small crowd gathered...
...COMPANY was getting up at 4.25 that Saturday morning. It was dark, raining and cold where they woke up, but they moved quickly to wash, dress, eat, and enter the waiting buses. They were going to Syracuse to watch Army's week football team play the equally feeble Orangemen. "No one says you have to go to football games." Gerry explained. "It's sort of optionally mandatory. If you don't go you might find yourself getting lower grades from some professors...
...Orangemen of any persuasion seem to have the heart these days to say no to the U.D.A. , which dispenses jobs, money, small favors and, of course, local protection in Protestant areas. It even handles the burying of the dead. In a prelude to last week's rioting, the U.D.A. buried with its own form of full military honors two young Protestants who had been killed by British army vehicles. According to the U.D.A. one of the victims, a 26-year-old man with a limp, had been chased by a Saracen personnel carrier and deliberately crushed against the side...