Although my cousin and I were Protestant and chanted Celtic. 
Same here (cos of Kenny)
Orange Lodge march in Hoylake, Wirral during this last week. Apparently, William of Orange sailed to Ireland from Hoylake just before the Battle of the Boyne. I never knew this and was shocked to see such a large number of Orangemen outside of the 12th July.
I am 62 years of age. I despise this religious bigotry but I can tell you that it was rife in Merseyside. My own mother was kicked out of the house for dating a Catholic.
My Grandad on my Ma's side was in the lodge band, played the bass drum from what she told me. I just found this pic on Facebook, its Netherfield Road South in 1950's, there's a chance, depending on if its pre or post 1957, that he is the one in the middle, as they lived just off Netherfield Road. She said they used to march past the bullring to wind the catholics up.
He died in 1957, my ma was 11 at the time. At 18, she got pregnant with me to a nice Catholic lad from Walton. My Dad once told a Priest to get out of our house before my Dad did something he'd regret as he said, that seeing as my Ma was a Protestant, God didn't recognise the marriage, so me and our kid were bastards, this was early 1970's.
Luckily me and our kid are both protestants, nothing religious in me saying that, just meant I went to Overdale and Ruffwood and not St Kevins. Fucking zoo that school was.
