Loyal Orange Institution of Queensland

09/06/2026

02/05/2026

The Grand Masters of Australia, Queensland and Victoria at the dedication of the refurbished Melbourne Orange house. Presentation from Queensland GM Bro Patrick. Bro McMichael GM of Australia complimented on the outstanding quality of the refurbishment being a credit to the Loyal Orange Institution of Victoria.

24/04/2026

As we prepare to remember ANZAC day we don’t forget all those who made the supreme sacrifice especially our own.

14/04/2026

Congratulations to Immediate Past Grand Master, 83 year old Beverley Buist with her City of Christchurch Half Marathon Medal. She completed the 21k in 3 hours 29 minutes.

12/04/2026

The Sons of Ulster LOL 135 based in Brisbane are pleased to welcome Bro. Brad Patterson into membership of LOL 135 and the Orange Order in Queensland.

15/03/2026

Bro. Colin Patrick Grand Master of LOIQ presents cheque for $500 to women’s domestic violence group Next up connections.

Domestic violence is unacceptable in any society.

28/02/2026

Congratulations LOL 64 Sons & Daughters of Ulster located in Perth Western Australia.

Great to see the continued growth in membership in WA. Keep up the good work brethren and sisters.

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the first decisive victory for the American revolutionaries in the Revolutionary War. At Moore’s Creek Bridge, northwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, around 1,000 American militiamen stood in the way of about 800 Loyalists marching towards Wilmington to connect with a force of British regulars. The American victory resulted in the capture of a majority of the Loyalists and the tamping down of loyalist fervor in the region.

A pastel portrait in our collections, painted in 1786, depicts Donald MacDonald wearing the uniform of the Royal Highland Emigrants, a provincial Loyalist unit that he joined in 1775. MacDonald, who settled in America after serving with the British Army during the Seven Years’ War, was ordered to North Carolina in late 1775, where the royal governor gave him the local rank of brigadier general and command of all Loyalist forces in the colony. MacDonald had been tasked with recruiting men, particularly his fellow Scots, to the Loyalist force. He was captured at Moore’s Creek Bridge and imprisoned in Halifax, North Carolina, and Philadelphia until his exchange in fall 1776.

Starting tomorrow, February 28, you can see this portrait on view alongside more than 40 other objects in our new exhibition, Voices of Revolution.

For more information about Voices of Revolution and to purchase tickets, visit:
https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/changing-exhibition-gallery/

22/02/2026

A chilling story of Republican equality and shared respect in country Cork. Don’t be fooled .

Martin Corry was a Fianna Fail TD for 40 years. Many men — and it is impossible to say what number — were murdered and buried at Corry’s farm, county Cork, after being imprisoned in a nearby vault in Kilquane graveyard, which Corry called Sing Sing.

As TD in the 1930s, he even jeered at James Dillon TD in Dail Eireann: 'Come down and I will show you. I will show you a lot of things you never saw before. I would nearly show you Sing Sing. I am sure the Deputy would have to be very fascinating before he’d get out of it.'

On St Patrick’s Night in 1922, six members of the Young Men’s Christian Association in Cork were abducted and executed at Corry’s farm. That same week, half a dozen loyalist farmers were similarly disappeared in west Cork.

Overall, from the summer of 1920 to the start of the Irish Civil War, 33 Protestants were shot in Cork city proper, while another 40 were killed nearby — a total of 73 Protestant victims from a small minority community. From around 1921, IRA units murdered or 'disappeared' at least 85 civilians. Some 26 were killed after the Truce.

A farmer bought some of Corry’s land in the 1960s and dug up several skeletons in a mass grave. These were handed over to the local gardai at Watergrasshill, after which they vanished without trace.

Chilling tapes of Corry chuckling about torturing, executing and secretly burying suspected spies during the Irish War of Independence were aired in a 2013 television documentary.

The tapes revealed how he relished his role as chief IRA executioner in the medieval torture vault named Sing Sing.

During the programme 'In the Name of the Republic,' Corry is heard recalling capturing, killing, and burying countless bodies in a nearby bog known as The Rea.

30/01/2026

Deepest condolences to the LOI of Western Australia and the extended family members of Brother James Todd (second on the left).
Past Grand Master of Western Australia and Grand Master of Australia. Gone but not forgotten, sleep easy Brother.

16/01/2026

Our first meeting of 2026 will be held 24th January at 10.00am in the LOIQ headquarters where Bro. Steel of LOL 106 Captain Arthur O’Neill.
and Bro. Bermingham of LOL 135 Sons of Ulster will be raised to the RAP degree.

We request your attendance to support our Brothers on this momentous occasion for them their Lodge and the Orange Institution in Queensland.