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Cycling through an Orange Parade. |
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Margaret Flanagan : I was never a great one for history. I never was interested really, nor for politics or anything like that I’d take no interest, y'know? And for them Orangemen that we're talkin about now. Well, my memories of the Orangemen, of course, I’ve no bad memories of them. Y'know, I remember at one time in Enniskillen, in what we used to call the back streets, you often heard of the back streets, there’s no back streets now, well when the parades would be going you couldn’t get through the town and then ones, all the Catholic people would all be coming up there and they’d stand along the street listenin to them bands goin out to the field and there wouldn’t be a bit word about them. But I remember there was one day, the night I was at home the night before but it was a terrible wet night and I couldn’t get back into town, I was with Dr Brady at the time and the next day was the twelfth of July and I had to come in, in the twelth of July, I was comin in about eleven o’clock in the day and they were just parading through the town and I remember I said "I’ll put on my green cap and they’ll know that I’m not an Orangewoman". I had several berets at the time, you know the wee berets? So I put on my wee beret anyway and got on my bicycle but when I got into town I had to get off and walk. I couldn’t get with the crowds of them, I couldn’t get up the town.
Interviewer: Couldn’t get through, yeah.
Margaret Flanagan : But finally I seen a wee space anyway and I got on and I flittered on on the bicycle past them all, but when I come sure I couldn’t get in, from where I was I couldn’t get into the side street, to the side path, into the house and what did I do only just turn my bike and they had to stop to let me in through it. I got in through.
Interviewer: In through the parade?
Margaret Flanagan : I in through the parade. [Laughing] It didn’t take long, you know with the bicycle.
Interviewer: Did you have your green hat on you?
Margaret Flanagan : I’d me green cap on [Laughing]. I often thought how funny it was. But they held up and they let me in.
Interviewer: Well now it was very civil.
Margaret Flanagan : What else could they do says you.
Interviewer: Yes.
Margaret Flanagan : Well I mean that at the same time they could of ignored me, you know I was only a young lassie at the time, and they could of just thought I was a bold one do you see with the green cap and all.
Ref: 99-022-115.
© Fermanagh County Museum and Clogher Historical Society. |
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Margaret Flanagan |
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99-022-115.mp3
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