Ribbonism, the principles of secret associations among the lower Irish Catholics, organised in opposition to Orangeism, the name being derived from a green ribbon worn as a badge in a button-hole by the members; they were most active between 1835 and 1855.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rhys, John * Ribera, Jusepe