Orange Terminology

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 39, 5 October 1922, Page 17

Orange Terminology

A “SPECIAL” DICTIONARY FOR “THE YARDS.” Heaven.An Orange Lodge on the other side of the Styx. Membership confined to “Ulstermen,” with a few exceptions, ; Hell.—A place of eternal pogrom paved with Papishes. Gunman (Fenian, Mickey, Taigue).— male Papish, Sinn Feiner. —See Gunman. Civil and Religious Liberty.—Permitting everybody else to be a Protestant-Unionist, an Orangeman, and a Mason, the same as yourself. Revolver. Useful weapon for disciplining Papishes. Bomb. —See Revolver. V Rifle. See 'Revolver. Justice.—Sentencing, a Papish to five years’ imprisonment for possessing a revolver and fining an Orangeman half a crown for the, same offence. To-day’s Good Deed. —Kill a few Papishes and burn their houses. Happy Thought.—Say they did it themselves, v British Empire.—An annexe of “Ulster.” Union Jack. —Flag of “Ulster,” kindly lent to tho aforesaid Empire. > . ' Sport.—“ Rounding Up” Papishes throughout the Six Counties and clapping them into underground cells.