Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities since 1750 by Dr Enda Delaney Donald M. MacRaild

Author:Dr Enda Delaney, Donald M. MacRaild [Dr Enda Delaney, Donald M. MacRaild]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415390538
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

Lady Symon remained among the ‘absent members’, though the Sisters periodically despatched marks of respect such as a framed Lodge photograph and a letter ‘informing her about the progress of our lodge’.101 Yet her nominal membership symbolised the mutual dependence, as in Ireland, of the political elite and the mass of voters. In their struggle against the Catholic menace, humble Orangemen needed tactical alliances with men and women of ‘distinction’, even those whose outlook was normally tolerant and liberal. Likewise, embattled politicians needed support from fraternities capable of mobilising the ‘working classes’, even under the banner of sectarianism.

The development of Orangeism in twentieth-century South Australia owed little, as shown above, to the transplantation of Irish people or specifically Irish attitudes. Yet a marked political affinity with Irish Unionists emerged strongly during the campaigns against Home Rule and republicanism between 1912 and 1923. In May 1912, the Sisters of Lady Symon's Lodge sent ‘a letter of Sympathy’ to Carson, received a promise of no less than £100 if required for ‘the Ulster Movement’, and heard an address ‘on the Struggle re Home Rule for Ireland’.102 In the same month, an Irish visitor to Port Adelaide ‘reported some of the doings of “Roman Catholics” in opposition to the Protestants in Ireland, also detailed tho’ in brief some very interesting information Re the Protestant Party to having “Home Rule” fostered [sic] upon them. Applause.’ The same Lodge extended the traditional closing formula to ‘God save the King – and Ireland from Home Rule – Verily Rome Rule’, and contributed its mite (two guineas) to the Ulster Defence Fund.103 In March 1922, the brethren heard an address from a clergyman who

hailed from that little Country Ireland, the land which was at Present so promintly [sic] before the Public. As a preface to his Remarks he mentioned in his Boyhood days homes of Protestants were sold by Roman Catholics in the hope of Ireland then getting home Rule.

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