Word: orangemen
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...protest against the partition of Ireland, and a petition asking the State Department to do all in its power to restore Ireland to unity, i.e., bring Northern Ireland's Protestant Orangemen under the green, white, and orange flag of Eire...
...Scotch-Irish who want no Catholic rule move to the U.S., in exchange for a like number of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick who want to extend Dublin's beneficent domain and presumably would be anxious themselves to enjoy the blessings which they urge upon the reluctant Orangemen. When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys...
Well after Orangemen's Day and far from the ould sod, Irish passions flared in Houston, at the expense of Glenn McCarthy's Shamrock hotel. Vandals dyed the water in the Shamrock swimming pool a deep orange, costing Millionaire McCarthy $159.40 for a rush job of draining out 100,000 gallons...
...take the part of the British; some will don quaint Gaelic costumes and take up the storied shillelagh. And the famous contests of former days will once more enliven local byways, as the loyal sons of the sod relive the glories of Saint Patrick and the defeat of the Orangemen...
...church, Canon Walter Simpson of St. Bartholomew's cried: "The law was invoked to compel me to submit to treatment which was an offense to my conscience as a citizen and a Christian priest." Costello's boxes gleaned about ?51,000, but the collection so outraged the Orangemen that they poured out to the polls as never before. Dublin's Protestant Irish Times crowed that Costello's collection was worth 60,000 votes for the Unionists in the resentful North...