This is When Walls Come Tumbling Down, the podcast which tells the story of mysterious objects tumbling to earth, the people who hid them, and the haunting rituals in which they were used. In this final episode, we tell how researchers pieced together the meaning of the mysterious objects, and the strange ritual in which they were used.

Reading List: 

Seamus Heaney, North (Faber and Faber, 1975). 

Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth, The Sash Canada wore: A historical geography of the Orange Order in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1980).

S. Karly Kehoe, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850 (University of Toronto Press, 2022).

Joseph Webster, The Religion of Orange Politics: Protestantism and Fraternity in contemporary Scotland (Manchester University Press, 2020).

David A. Wilson ed., The Orange Order in Canada (Four Courts Press, 2007).

Credits: When Walls Come Tumbling Down was written by Christian Cowper and Naomi Kent for St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The narrator was Nicole Laguit; the studio engineer was Christian Cowper, and the editor was Christian Cowper. Extra narration was provided by David McLarnon and the music was 'Order' by ComaStudio. There’s a reading list to go with the podcast which is listed in the description. If you enjoyed the episode, you can help us by sharing it wherever you can; and thank you for listening.