Oct 17, 2026 · 23 min · 8 segments
NO GOING BACK! An interview with Breandán Mac Cionnaith and the residents of Garvaghy Road in the run-up to the Belfast High Court decision on whether or not to allow the Orange Order to walk down the…
Breandán Mac CionnaithGuestGarvaghy Road ResidentGuestGarvaghy Road ResidentGuestI suppose the place to start is to go back to the 17- 1790s, and anyone who knows their history, their Irish history, would be aware that that was the era in which the United Irishmen were founded.
And their aim was to unite Protestant, Catholic, and the Center under the common name of Irishmen and to break the connection with Britain.
They were largely successful in mobilizing support behind their cause, but the British were also largely successful in bringing conflict over religion into the equation again.
And they mobilized different forces, militia units, and whatnot, to suppress the United Irishmen.
One of the areas where those militias were organized was in County Armagh.
And indeed, the Drumcree Church, where the Orange Men marched to, actually hosted one of the very first church services organized by those Orange societies at that time.
And leaving their church service that day in the 1790s, according to Plaid's History of Ireland, they then descended upon two Catholics working in a field nearby and beat them to death.
That's when it first came to prominence, came to prominence with the death of two Catholics.
And throughout the years since then, the different decades, the different centuries, there has always been that anti-Catholic, anti-Nationalist ethos being promoted by the Orange Order.
[footsteps plodding] That's a good computer, isn't it? That's something for the kids, the younger kids.
I suppose the place to start is to go back to the 17- 1790s, and anyone who knows their history, their Irish history, would be aware that that was the era in which the United Irishmen were founded.
And their aim was to unite Protestant, Catholic, and the Center under the common name of Irishmen and to break the connection with Britain.
They were largely successful in mobilizing support behind their cause, but the British were also largely successful in bringing conflict over religion into the equation again.
And they mobilized different forces, militia units, and whatnot, to suppress the United Irishmen.
One of the areas where those militias were organized was in County Armagh.
And indeed, the Drumcree Church, where the Orange Men marched to, actually hosted one of the very first church services organized by those Orange societies at that time.
And leaving their church service that day in the 1790s, according to Plaid's History of Ireland, they then descended upon two Catholics working in a field nearby and beat them to death.
That's when it first came to prominence, came to prominence with the death of two Catholics.
And throughout the years since then, the different decades, the different centuries, there has always been that anti-Catholic, anti-Nationalist ethos being promoted by the Orange Order.
[footsteps plodding] That's a good computer, isn't it? That's something for the kids, the younger kids.
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