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<blockquote data-quote="The Agrarian" data-source="post: 7752413" data-attributes="member: 3656"><p>There are a few points in there that need to be addressed. </p><p></p><p>This event doesn't involve the Orange Order (though it's entirely possible senior representatives have been invited as guests, along with people from across the spectrum). </p><p>The order doesn't have anything to do with bonfires. They are organised by Loyalists, and often just youngsters. The Order has a festival day, for want of a more explanatory term, once a year, which involves marching in time to Hymns, Scottish reels and many other pretty apolitical themes, as well as some historical political ones of which I have no knowledge. Have you ever watched the Trooping the Colour? Of course you have, as have I. It involves marching bands and fancy uniforms and a general festival feel. </p><p></p><p>The service in no way claims to celebrate anything. It does aim to MARK the birth of Northern Ireland as a state, as well as the creation of the international border when our neighbours left the Union. I, as a Unionist, in no way celebrate partition. I would always much rather our ancestors had been able to work things out between them and preserved the Union, which had gone back in various forms to Norman times, and many centuries before that. I have no doubt that, while less political, history will judge the last hundred years as being just a bump in the road of what are deep and everlasting interactions within and between these islands. </p><p></p><p>But we are where we are. Perhaps if you lived here, you would realise just how low key and sensitively handled the matter of the Centenary has been this year, passing off with very little mention to be quite honest. I think most Unionists have not pushed the issue too hard at all. Quite something that one very sensitive and toned down cross-community church service is the pinnacle of the observance of the Centenary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Agrarian, post: 7752413, member: 3656"] There are a few points in there that need to be addressed. This event doesn't involve the Orange Order (though it's entirely possible senior representatives have been invited as guests, along with people from across the spectrum). The order doesn't have anything to do with bonfires. They are organised by Loyalists, and often just youngsters. The Order has a festival day, for want of a more explanatory term, once a year, which involves marching in time to Hymns, Scottish reels and many other pretty apolitical themes, as well as some historical political ones of which I have no knowledge. Have you ever watched the Trooping the Colour? Of course you have, as have I. It involves marching bands and fancy uniforms and a general festival feel. The service in no way claims to celebrate anything. It does aim to MARK the birth of Northern Ireland as a state, as well as the creation of the international border when our neighbours left the Union. I, as a Unionist, in no way celebrate partition. I would always much rather our ancestors had been able to work things out between them and preserved the Union, which had gone back in various forms to Norman times, and many centuries before that. I have no doubt that, while less political, history will judge the last hundred years as being just a bump in the road of what are deep and everlasting interactions within and between these islands. But we are where we are. Perhaps if you lived here, you would realise just how low key and sensitively handled the matter of the Centenary has been this year, passing off with very little mention to be quite honest. I think most Unionists have not pushed the issue too hard at all. Quite something that one very sensitive and toned down cross-community church service is the pinnacle of the observance of the Centenary. [/QUOTE]
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