Liam's Irish Traditional Music - Irelands culture and tradition

On a local level, in Ireland, the Protestant Orange movement was organized in lodges. The original society was sectarian and working-class. It grew in strength by recruiting the textile and shipping workers in Belfast, and now it began to gather support from the upper classes as well. Lord Randolph Churchill's visit to Belfast in 1886 encouraged the Unionists and Orange lodges to display their strength. The slogan of the lime was fashioned by Churchill. "Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right". On his return to England later that year, Churchill pledged support for their cause; members of the new Conservative government warmly welcomed this move. The Orange cause was to be openly supported by British Conservatives throughout the early years of the twentieth century. Individual Orange lodges continued to recruit new members, and held drilling sessions in Belfast. This created an unsettling and provocative atmosphere, and an increase in sectarian disturbances followed. The Orange Order maintained its right to be linked to Britain, in a Protestant Ulster.