Clogher Co Tyrone

Watching the Twelfth: Ladder of Escape…

Quintin Oliver on July 13, 2011, 8:04 pm

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Spellbound by Joan Miró’s brilliant exhibition at Tate Modern on Monday, it was fresh in my mind as we set off early on Tuesday 12th July for Augher and Clogher – in it, his ‘Ladder of Escape’ appears and reappears as a running theme, symbolising a way out, a hopeful exit, but sometimes a ladder of futility, going nowhere, leading to a dead end. Where would the Orange commemorations be leading? I walked down the Lisburn Road at 9.00, as …

Keepin ‘er country at Clogher Field 12th July (Part I)

Moochin Photoman on July 13, 2011, 6:55 pm

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With Edwin Graham at the wheel, myself,Mark McGregor and Quintin Oliver took a trip to Augher in Co Tyrone and then unto Clogher for a country 12th. We arrived in time for the preparations prior to the parade Having marched from the top of the town, down to the bottom of the town and back to the top of the town, everything was packed up for the short journey to Clogher to join the main County Orange Order Demonstration. It …