REV Brian Kennaway has been a senior member of the Orange Order for over 40 years. In an extract from his new book – The Orange Order: a tradition betrayed - in today’s Tele, he reveals how the Order in recent years has sheltered loyalist terrorists in its ranks and failed to discipline them. It’s an embarrassing catalogue of failure that has left those who still believe in the Order’s core values wondering what the organisation now stands for.
Extract from Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker: The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Bristol: Intellect Books. 2010. Political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new executive in May 2007, closing yet another chapter in [...] read our review »
John Laird (Lord Laird of Artigarvan) is unionism’s jester. His memoir A Struggle To Be Heard ” by a True Ulster Liberal” (from Slugger’s shop on Amazon here) might serve more as a heavy stocking filler than anybody’s idea of a main present. In it he wears the masks of comedy and tragedy to turn the [...] read our review »
MisFitz, tree-hugging is all well and good. But be warned, in Ulster you are surely bound, sooner or later, to be accused of barking up the wrong tree by those who hug “only the one true tree”.
To daily delight in the pleasures of Rostrevor must surely be a form of prayer in itself and enough to make one content.