Dates of Major Parades
| Date | Groups involved | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 17 March | Various | Saint Patrick's Day |
| Easter Sunday | Republicans | Commemorates the Easter Rising (1916) |
| 5 May | Republicans | Commemorates the republican hunger strike (1981) |
| 1 July | Various groups, mostly unionist | Commemorates the Battle of the Somme (1916) |
| 1st Sunday in July |
Orange Order | "Drumcree Sunday" |
| 12 July | Orange Order | The Twelfth |
| 9 August | Republicans | Commemorates the introduction of internment (1971) |
| Saturday nearest 12 August |
Apprentice Boys of Derry | Commemorates the Siege of Derry (1689) |
| −15 August | Ancient Order of Hibernians | Lady Day |
| last Saturday in August |
Royal Black Institution | "Black Saturday" |
| last Sunday in October |
Orange Order | Reformation Day |
| 2nd Sunday in November |
British Legion and others | Remembrance Sunday |
| Saturday nearest 18 December |
Apprentice Boys of Derry | Commemorates the Siege of Derry (1688) |
Read more about this topic: Parades In Northern Ireland
Famous quotes containing the words dates, major and/or parades:
“What is most interesting and valuable in it, however, is not the materials for the history of Pontiac, or Braddock, or the Northwest, which it furnishes; not the annals of the country, but the natural facts, or perennials, which are ever without date. When out of history the truth shall be extracted, it will have shed its dates like withered leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Self-centeredness is a natural outgrowth of one of the toddler’s major concerns: What is me and what is mine...? This is why most toddlers are incapable of sharing ... to a toddler, what’s his is what he can get his hands on.... When something is taken away from him, he feels as though a piece of him—an integral piece—is being torn from him.”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)
“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)