Orange Order
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Orange Order
Orange Order, the, a Protestant society founded in Loughgall, Co. Armagh, in 1795, its name commemorating King William III, Prince of Orange, whose victory at the Boyne in 1690 secured the Protestant interest in Ireland.
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