Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Maps
1. Drumcree: An Introduction to Parade Disputes
2. Northern Ireland: Ethnicity Politics and Ritual
3. Appropriating William and Inventing the Twelfth
4. Parading 'Respectable' Politics
5. Rituals of State
6. 'You Can March - Can Others?'
7. The Orange and other Loyal Orders
8. The Marching Season
9. The Twelfth
10. 'Tradition', Control and Resistance
11. Return To Drumcree
Appendix 1 The number of parades in Northern Ireland according to RUC statistics
Appendix 2 The ‘Marching Season’: Important Loyal Order
Parading Dates.
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dominic Bryan is a reader at Queens University Belfast, he worked previously as a research officer at the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster, Coleraine and has published widely on Irish History, including the book Orange Parades (Pluto Press, 2000).

Reviews

'An exceptionally useful book, the product of years of observation and industry ... a classic ethnographic text'
*The Times Literary Supplement*