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NI council to take ‘authority’ over bonfires on its land for first time
A Northern Ireland council is set take ”authority” over bonfires on its lands for the first time. Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council (LCCC) witness approximately 24 bonfires lit on its lands on an ...
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What are the Orange marches Queen Elizabeth referred to as 'silly business'?
The annual Orange marches of Protestants in Northern Ireland are highly contentious ... Celebrations begin on July 11 every year with bonfires and fireworks before thousands of members of ...
Sinn Fein want Belfast City Hall lit up for Irish national commemoration, as loyalists light up bonfires across city
Sinn Fein has made a request for Belfast City Hall to be lit up to celebrate the Republic’s National Day of Commemoration ...
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Police treat Derry bonfire material as hate crimes
Bonfires on 15 August are traditional in some nationalist parts of Northern Ireland to mark the Catholic ... the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 when the Protestant King William III - also known ...
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Northern Ireland census finds Catholics outnumber Protestants for the first time
Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time in what has been described as a “hugely significant and historic moment”. How likely is a united Ireland and when could ...
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Protestant unionist masculinities & the Orange Order in Canada
Protestant Orangemen in the new state of Northern Ireland found themselves in increasing positions of power and control over the Catholic and nationalist minority in the north. The Great War ...
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Twelfth of July parades the 'biggest in a generation'
He added that a small number of Eleventh Night bonfires on ... swore to defend the Protestant faith. On 12 July, marching bands from Orange lodges all over Northern Ireland parade through villages ...