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                                                                                        Independent Order of Rechabites Banner.  Formed as a friendly society in 1835 it promoted total abstinence of alcohol.  First branch or "tent" in Ireland was formed in Belfast in 1846 and survived in to the 1980s.
Courtesy of Mid Antrim Museums Service.