Orange marches belfast

Yep they are being integrated into Patrick's Day celebrations, it's just a pity it doesn't work the other way.
Dublin also.

www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/more-often-seen-marching-behind-an-orange-order-lodge-the-story-behind-the-flute-band-members-clapped-and-cheered-on-the-streets-of-dublin-on-st-patricks-day-PWY3TCGUPZHI7HC7BPUYKPIBTI/

Wt-flip? And that's where St Patrick and St Brigid are buried. How anti Catholic can you get.

I'm very surprised that considering your family are from NI and live there in areas where the pavements are painted you don't know more about it and why it can't just be stopped if enough people complain

Try telling that to a group of terrorists.

I was very surprised to learn that most of the bands playing in the Downpatrick St Patrick's Day parade this year were loyalist ones 😧

This. The sheer ignorance and naivety on this thread is quite shocking!

paramilitary, obviously 🙄

Yup the ‘big walk’ is in my town this year so we shall be descended on by bloody thousands and our town is not that big. Husband has marked the date in the calendar and current plan is to head out early and avoid the lot of it. We will need to leave mega early as the first parades tend to Marshall around 8am 🙄

based on supremacy that the ‘natives’ should know their place

It's not that simple, but as I said above, it's the legacy of English colonialism in Ireland.

Just put a stop to it 😂😂😂😂

Trust me, as horrible as the marches are, stopping them will result in absolute carnage. We will go back to bombings and murders. Think I'm being dramatic? Then thank your lucky stars none of your family had to live through the terrifying events of the Troubles.

Parliamentary groups are terrorists, the police have no control over them.

I mean this kindly (and I also hate marching season) but you obviously understand very little about policing in Northern Ireland..

I'm not a fan of these marches AT ALL, but I think this thread is a perfect example of the staggering lack of understanding in the rest of the UK of social ecosystem in the North of Ireland.

Yes, there are definitely rough areas with rough bands (and OP if you aunt is being asked to contribute to painting flagstones she almost certainly lives in one of these locations).

In reality the vast majority of these marches take place in rural locations with small bands that play hymns and non sectarian music. They'll often go and entertain residents in nursing homes as well for example. Although more common in Protestant areas, it's also true with Catholic bands. I've on occasion (although not often) heard of bands lending instruments to a band from the "other side" to help them out. The sectarianism does exist, but the relationships in those communities can also can be multi-layered and close even between people from different parts of the religious divide.

There seems to be a need to be really reductive about conflict impacted communities, but I think if you've grown up in society like that, you understand instinctively that it's a learning curve out of divide and everyone comes at it differently. Just labelling someone as a bigot without actually understanding anything about their circumstances or context is terribly naive.

Got stuck behind one today in North Lanarkshire with a hungry baby - that was fun trying to get home! Bastards 😂

The Protestant taxi thing is true though.

For many many years, possibly even now, only certain taxis would take certain people to certain areas, and it could be unsafe.

My view is that anyone who wants to march or celebrate their culture in public in NI should hire a stadium to do it, and not antagonise their neighbours.

It sounds as though it’s just become a social event now, something these men are just enjoying doing, socialising and drinking and annoying others.

There are orange orders in Canada, the US and ,I believe, Australia.

I read that there were still marches in North America, and didn't realise it only meant Canada;.

"There are also Twelfth marches in Canada and Australia. As the longest consecutively held parade in North America (first held in 1821), the Twelfth March was the largest parade in Toronto[46] when thousands of Orangemen would march in front of tens of thousands of spectators, until the 1970s.[47] At the time, the Orange Order held such sway that membership in the Order was an unspoken prerequisite for holding civic office.[48] However, the march's popularity has drastically diminished in recent years, as only about 500 people participate in modern Orange parades.[46] Orangemen's Day is still a provincial public sector holiday in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador,[49] but not a shops closing holiday.[50]"

Re. the tradition of marching bands in the US and Canada; I meant there is a (possibly related) tradition of marching bands, pipe bands etc. in those countries. That is all. (Not bands who march in OO parades, as in NI).

Anyway ....with your fabulous tact, diplomacy, politeness and respectful inoffensive manner, you should really come here and sort out the political problems. What could go wrong.

The Orange culture is based on supremacy that the ‘natives’ should know their place. The marches are designed to intimidate and assert domination.

Orange members have to swear never to attend a Catholic church. Members have been ‘disciplined’ for attending the funeral of a Catholic policeman. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2011/sep/15/unionists-orange-order-kerr-funeral

Hateful bigots.

Thankfully attendance is dropping rapidly.

Good idea they should put a stop to it I don't know why no one has thought of that before.

The next time you go to visit NI you can instead listen to the sounds of rioting and violence.

In fact I'm sure I read that more orange marches take place in Glasgow annually than in Belfast.

I lived in Glasgow for years. Obv the big march was the one before the 12th (so they could pop over and join the 'celebrations' in NI for the actual 12th) but they were also held frequently throughout the year on random Saturdays. Really got on my wick.

Plus certain parts of Lanarkshire love nothing more than a bit of religious intolerance ;-)

Orange order lodges closely related to freemasonry. Symbolism, uniform, aims are the same. They were born from each other. Catholicism only religion not compatible with freemasonry. 33 degrees in freemasonry. When you get to 33rd degree, you realise that the 'higher power' you worship is satan himself. Bad, bad news.