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Battle of the Boyne Parade Today
Jul 12^th, 2014 at 11:38pm

July 12th is the most important date on the Summer Parades calendar.

The parades through Northern Ireland today mark the defeat by King Wliiiam III of the Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Last year following the decision to cordon off parts of the Crumlin Road (which separates Catholic area and Protestant area) - there was what become "The Night of Fire" - clashes between Catholics and Protestants which Police struggled to contain.

High temperatures today and again a decision to re-route the Loyalist march will make like interesting this evening.....

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today Reply #4 - Jul 12^th, 2014 at 11:46pm Previous Passby of Crumlin Road march.
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Brian Ross Gold Member Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today Reply #5 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 12:49am Interesting how Christians acting like this, inspired by their differing interpretations of their version of their shared religion go unremarked upon by the many religious commentators here.
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Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today
Reply #6 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 1:42am

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jul 12^th, 2014 at 11:38pm:

July 12th is the most important date on the Summer Parades calendar.

The parades through Northern Ireland today mark the defeat by King Wliiiam III of the Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Last year following the decision to cordon off parts of the Crumlin Crossmaglen Road (which separates Catholic area and Protestant area) - there was what become "The Night of Fire" - clashes between Catholics and Protestants which Police struggled to contain.

High temperatures today and again a decision to re-route the Loyalist march will make like interesting this evening.....

Indeed - no stopping this conflagrationist Loyalists, is there? Maybe the Brits should walk away from NI and leave it to the Irish.

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Reply #7 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 1:48am

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 12:49am:

Interesting how Christians acting like this, inspired by their differing interpretations of their version of their shared religion go unremarked upon by the many religious commentators here. Shocked

Countless years of Norman and English invasion and abuse, one million Irish dead from being dispossessed of their homeland in Ulster to put in these same Protestants (including what must be a huge number of my clanspeople since we once ruled Ulster), Anti-Irish Laws (look them up), countless deaths in oppressing and suppressing Irish national sentiment, internment without trial etc......

Yeah - I'd say the Irish have something to complain about - and let me remind you - it's not the majority Catholics who are doing this marching....

Me? I'm partly Irish Anglican, but the majority of the Clan are Catholic and my lot are considered apostate.. yet a clansman mortared the police training academy at Enniskillen.... and the Clan were the last to give up Gaelic as first language.

Argh - truly a fractious lot! You have to be here to know.... the only people my clan fight more than the Sassenach is each other..... truly an Irish national sport...

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Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today
Reply #8 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 11:33am

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 12:49am:

Interesting how Christians acting like this, inspired by their differing interpretations of their version of their shared religion go unremarked upon by the many religious commentators here. Shocked

So true

Even in Australia we had a similar (although fortunately less violent) divide between Catholics v Protestants. It used to be a big issue.

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Laugh till you cry Gold Member Offline Posts: 16619 In your happy place Gender:	Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today Reply #10 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 6:13pm Is there any way we can blame the Muslims for this? I got it. The Irish are fighting each other because the Muslims did not build a mosque there that both sides could focus their hate on.
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Gnads Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 31417 Gender:	Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today Reply #11 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 6:19pm Perhaps you could establish a new religion there? You'd be easily hated by both sides thus leaving Muslims out of one thread for once.
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Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today
Reply #12 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 6:38pm

The Heartless Felon wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 11:47am:

It seems that Andrei goes weak at the knees at the thought of an orange willy...

Hardly.
Though I think the Orange Order have every right to celebrate their history and shouldn't be prevented walking down a public street because it's residents don't like the history of the battle result.

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Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today
Reply #13 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 6:44pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 6:38pm:

The Heartless Felon wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 11:47am:

It seems that Andrei goes weak at the knees at the thought of an orange willy...

Hardly.
Though I think the Orange Order have every right to celebrate their history and shouldn't be prevented walking down a public street because it's residents don't like the history of the battle result.

I thought you frowned on demonstrations and marches, Andrei.

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Re: Battle of the Boyne Parade Today
Reply #14 - Jul 13^th, 2014 at 7:01pm

Setanta wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 6:44pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 6:38pm:

The Heartless Felon wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 11:47am:

It seems that Andrei goes weak at the knees at the thought of an orange willy...

Hardly.
Though I think the Orange Order have every right to celebrate their history and shouldn't be prevented walking down a public street because it's residents don't like the history of the battle result.

I thought you frowned on demonstrations and marches, Andrei.

This is a parade celebration not a demo.

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