RIBBON SOCIETY
(Ribbonism)
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The members of the Ribbon Society were referred to as Ribbonists and they saw themselves as a counterweight to the Orange Order of the extremist Protestants. The Protestants were the “Hereticks”—this was the spelling of the time.
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Ribbonism, whose supporters were usually called Ribbonmen, was a 19th-century popular movement of poor Catholics in Ireland. The movement was also known as Ribandism. The Ribbonmen were active against landlords and their agents, and opposed "Orangeism", the ideology of the Protestant Orange Order.
