Belfast Gay Pride Belfast Pride Festival is one of the biggest festivals in the capital of Northern Ireland. It runs over 100 events across 10 days, and offers a series of different parties, cultural activities, and... July 13 - 21, 2024 ...
"In 1997 and 1998, marching-related violence in Belfast, Londonderry, Newry, Portadown, Ballymoney, and Armagh, among other areas, included gunshot attacks on police, throwing of petrol bombs and rocks, hijacking and burning vehicles."Although 1999 and 2000 were calmer, incidents this month have...
Nowadays, the annual July 12 parade in Belfast is a civic spectacular that can draw 100,000 celebrants, Northern Ireland’s answer to the biggest Irish parade of them all--St. Patrick’s Day in New York. (Protestant immigrants from Ireland once marched through New York, but that was aband...
it did a U-turn after winning promises from Orangemen and getting the agreement of nationalist community groups in the first critical test of the marching season.Grand Master of Belfast County Orange Lodge, Dawson Baillie, said: "Some of the things that were criticised from last year werevery...