Timeline for Why was wearing an orange lily so offensive as to warrant assault in Ireland in 1845?
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| Aug 3, 2022 at 16:53 | vote | accept | Curious Layman | ||
| Aug 3, 2022 at 16:52 | comment | added | Curious Layman | One last additional note is that it used to be illegal for the Orangemen to have their processions, because it caused "outrage", but in the years preceding this event a law had been passed legalizing their marches. I do not know when this law was passed or what it was called, I simply hear it remarked on in several places which detail an Orange Order procession. | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 16:49 | comment | added | Curious Layman | Also, I have access to BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk and I have found easily a DOZEN incidents of the Orangemen having enormous processions through cities. Several end violently, sometimes the Protestant Orangemen slaughter the Catholics, as in Armagh around this time when 7 Catholics were killed, or other times when the Catholics ran the Orangemen into a river. | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 16:45 | comment | added | Curious Layman | I think this is going to be the answer I accept (still 1 to go), but you hit it on the head. The other answer, which received more upvotes, makes it seem like Catholics are still pissed about what happened in centuries past, not about the CURRENT problems facing Catholics as you have so wonderfully argued. | |
| Jul 27, 2022 at 7:24 | history | edited | davidlol | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added explanation about Orange, rather than orange, lilies.
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| Jul 26, 2022 at 16:20 | history | answered | davidlol | CC BY-SA 4.0 |