Orangeism and Popular Unionist Politics
A Workshop sponsored by the ESRC and the Canadian High Commission 8 November 2002
University of Ulster at Jordanstown

DRAFT PROGRAMME

9:30 am Coffee and Registration

SESSION 1: TRENDS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY ORANGE SOCIAL POWER

10: 00 am Dr. Eric Kaufmann (Southampton) and Dr. J.C. Herbert Emery (Calgary, Canada)- Orangeism and Protestant Fraternalism (Oddfellowship/Freemasonry) in Twentieth Century Ontario, Canada

10: 45 am Rev. Gordon McCracken (former Deputy Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Scotland, now a private author) - Scottish Orangeism in the Twentieth Century

11: 30 am Coffee

12: 00 noon Discussion (Ruth Dudley Edwards, author of The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions)

1: 00 pm Lunch

SESSION 2: ULSTER AND DIASPORA ORANGEISM: HISTORY, POLITICS AND FOLKLORE

2: 30 pm Professor David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College Dublin) - Orangeism in Northern Ireland, 1921-72

3: 15 pm Dr. Donald MacRaild (Northumbria) - Orangeism in the Northeast of England, 1886-1918

4: 00 pm Tea

4: 30 pm Dr. Clifford Smyth (Ulster Society) - Orange history and folklore

5: 15 pm Discussion (Dr. Dominic Bryan, Queens U. of Belfast)