8th November 2002

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What influence has the Order had on the Unionist community’s response to the Belfast Agreement and the recent attempts to establish a power-sharing administration in the province?

And what is the relationship between the Order and the Ulster Unionist Party?

Those are just some of the questions being addressed at a seminar on Orangeism being held at
the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, today (Friday 8 November).

Seminar organiser, Professor Henry Patterson, said:

“While the Orange Order has played an important role in the political, social and cultural history of Northern Ireland we still lack much serious academic analysis of the Order.”

Key questions like the size of the Order and how that has changed during the last 100 years will also be up for discussion at the event, which brings leading analysts and academics to the Province, including writer and critic Ruth Dudley Edwards, who has recently published a book on the culture of Orangeism.

The seminar springs from a research project into Orangeism presently being undertaken by Professor Henry Patterson of the University of Ulster and Dr Eric Kaufmann of the University of Southampton.

For further information, please contact:

Press Office Department of Communication and Development
Telephone: 028 9036 6178
Email: pressoffice@ulster.ac.uk