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Loyalist Mural - King Billy
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Text and Photograph: Bill Rolston ... Page Compiled: Fionnuala McKenna
Theme
King Billy crossing the Boyne, with dying Jacobite soldier
on the river bank.
This mural commemorates the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, when
King William III (William of Orange) defeated King James II
in a struggle over the English crown. William's victory led
to the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and the Penal Laws,
which basically disenfranchised the majority Catholic
population. Since the late 1790s, the Battle has been celebrated by the
Orange Order, a Protestant organisation, on the Twelfth of
July. The Twelfth is the hiqh point in the unionist calendar to
this day.
Location and Date
Donegall Pass, Belfast, 1984
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