My brand new wellies came with a 32-page instruction booklet. 4 pages in each of 8 languages. 🙄
But on a very moist morning 15 years ago today, the instruction-clad wellies also carried the recently-widowed me down to my own bit of lakeshore, to capture one of […]
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![The image one paragraph of black, serifed text 9n a whote background. It is a screenshot of part of a column by Justine McCarthy, published in The Irish Times on Friday 2nd =October 2026:
Loyalist chauvinism did not start last Sunday or in Drumcree in 1995 or with the Troubles in 1969 or in 1920 with partition and the establishment of a sectarian Northern state. It is centuries old. The first Orange parade in Drumcree took place in July 1795, instigated by a Protestant minister whose sermon “so worked up the minds of his audience [they] gave full scope to their anti-papistical zeal” on their way home from church. Thus recorded historian Francis Plowden. In History of Ireland, published in 1809, he described the ensuing mob “falling upon every Catholic they met, beating and bruising them without provocation or distinction, breaking the doors and windows of their houses, and actually murdering two unoffending Catholics in a bog”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:khtfw2msi3wrewvfu4bd554u/bafkreidgwriyriqfzxa6gzzytjfz2uvgozedi4rnqthv767fofaz2tp6fm)
