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Postcard issued by the Yes-campaign. This was a political group<br />

independent of political parties, created to promote voting in favour of the<br />

Belfast agreement on the referendum following its signing on May 22.<br />

Posters of similar design were displayed also in public areas.<br />

They used the blue, white and red of traffic signs. 1998.<br />

to by opponents simply as Orange feet: Under no conditions<br />

will the residents of the Ormeau Road accept an Orange foot on<br />

the Ormeau Road and Mo Mowlam’s game-plan for the Ormeau<br />

Road, I am sure, is how to put Orange feet on the Ormeau<br />

Road 52 . Isolating part of the body in this way has a dehumanising<br />

effect, the feet becoming not only anonymous but mindless. The<br />

Orange processions take place on public roads and a phrase often<br />

used to support the right of such parades is that they occur<br />

52 ) BT 9/7/97 “Features” page, p. 13, in an interview by Mark Simpson [reporter]<br />

with Gerard Rice. The expression was also used again in the interview:<br />

“It [Dr Mowlam’s visit to the area] was all part of how to get Orange<br />

feet on the Ormeau Road”. “Under no conditions will the residents …accept<br />

an Orange foot on the Ormeau Road” was also quoted in one of the joint lead<br />

stories on the front page.<br />

Proverbial Expressions ...<br />

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