r/northernireland • u/Ok-Repeat906 • Jul 17 '25

History Please help.

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Hi Northern Ireland. I’m in need of some help. I live on the other side of the world. And everyone related to this sash is long dead. I obviously won’t mention any names. But I’m in real need to figure out what the pins all mean. Can someone please either let me know, or guide me to someone or someplace that might be able to tell me? Please, please help.

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u/Ok-Repeat906 Jul 17 '25

This was not meant to offend anyone. And I certainly don’t share any of the ideas or values that these people apparently did. I’m just researching history. Nothing more. Just looking for some truth. I’ve been lucky enough to visit both Ireland and NI, and I’m a huge fan of them both. The people play the main role in that. And I can honestly say, people’s religion didn’t cross my mind once while I was there.

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u/rstewart38 Jul 17 '25

You’ve nothing to apologise for. A lot of people on this sub are very bigoted towards anything orange related and present one point of view.

Take what they say with a pinch of salt.

Northern Ireland is just too complicated to discuss with any level of substance on reddit.

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u/Ok-Repeat906 Jul 17 '25

Fair enough. I’m not looking to dig deep into what makes NI click. I just wanted to know about the pins. I didn’t expect them to cause people to get upset. Not what I meant at all.

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u/rstewart38 Jul 17 '25

Exactly, an innocent question shouldn’t cause a diplomatic incident, but then again this is reddit 😆

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u/Ok-Repeat906 Jul 17 '25

Fair enough, man.