Episode 4 - Orange Beginnings

The Irish in Canada Podcast

English - October 20, 2022 03:00 - 10 minutes - 7.56 MB
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The Orange Order – an Irish Protestant fraternal association founded in the 1790s – was hugely popular in English-speaking Canada in the nineteenth century, although it’s mostly forgotten today. How did Orangemen become so successful, both politically and culturally? Why did they take root so firmly in parts of Upper Canada? And what did this success in Canada have to do with the 1798 Irish Rising?