In the first major study of the Protestant Loyalist Orange Order in Northern Ireland, Dominic Bryan provides a detailed ethnographic and historical study of Orange Order parades.
He looks at the development of the parades, the history of disputes over the parades, the structure and politics of the Orange Order, the organisation of loyalist bands, the role of social class in Unionist politics – and the anthropology of ritual itself.
Table of Content
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).
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