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This year sees the first return of the full celebrations since the pandemic.
Thousands of people took part in parades across Northern Ireland to mark the Twelfth of July.
Marches in Northern Ireland on and around 1 July originally commemorated the participation of the 36th (Ulster) Division in the Battle of the Somme. Since the beginning of the Troubles, most of these parades have evolved into the "mini Twelfth", and have little obvious connection with World War I.
The Twelfth (also called Orangemens' Day) [1] is a primarily Ulster Protestant celebration held on 12 July. It began in the late 18th century in Ulster.It celebrates the Glorious Revolution (1688) and victory of Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne (1690), which ensured a Whig political party and Anglican Ascendancy in Ireland and the passing ...
The Orange Institution holds hundreds of parades throughout Northern Ireland every year. [2] The biggest of these are usually on the twelfth of July ('The Twelfth'), in commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne. Individual lodges also parade at various times of the year, particularly leading up to the Twelfth.
The Twelfth parades, which are organised by the Orange Order, commemorate the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Orangemen set to march to mark Twelfth of July in Northern Ireland Skip to main content
Parades will be held at 100 locations across Northern Ireland on Monday, rather than the traditional 18 main parades. The Orange Order said organising smaller parades was the best way to ensure ...
Commenting on the 1996 crisis, a Northern Ireland Office official said constraints on parades aroused an "atavistic response from the unionist community", which recognised it had "lost dominance" in Northern Ireland; [55] while "to many nationalists, the handling of the parades issue is an acid test of [the British Government's] resolve to ...