Turning Orange marches into a tourist event
[This is taken from A Note from the Next Door Neighbours, the monthly e-bulletin of Andy Pollak, Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh and Dublin] This is the Orange marching season. It is a traditionally a time of heightened inter-community tensions in Northern Ireland, when tens of thousands of Catholics and middle-class Protestants flee the province in order to avoid the Twelfth and its accompanying displays of sectarian triumphalism. In the late-1990s the Portadown Orangemens insistence …