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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIBBONISM , the name given to an Irish See also:

secret-society See also:movement, which began at the end of the 18th See also:century in opposition to the See also:Orangemen (q.v.), and which was represented by various associations under different names, organized in lodges, and recruited all over See also:Ireland from the lowest classes of the See also:people. The actual name of Ribbonism (from a See also:green badge worn by its members) became attached to the movement later, about 1826; and, after it had grown to its height about 1855, it declined in force, and was practically at an end in its old See also:form when in 1871 the See also:Westmeath See also:Act declared Ribbonism illegal. See also under IRELAND: See also:History.

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