Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another MacBride Campaign’: An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendices: Key Recommendations of
- 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)
- 4 The Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloom.eld, 1998)
- 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
- Images
9 - Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another MacBride Campaign’: An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendices: Key Recommendations of
- 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)
- 4 The Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloom.eld, 1998)
- 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
- Images
Summary
CHAPTER 7
HISTORY ON THE MARCH OR FORWARD MARCH?
‘There is no street with mute stones and no house without echoes’ Góngora Y Argote (1561–1627)
History on the March
7.1 Both sides to the parades dispute are conditioned by history. As Dr A. T. Q. Stewart put it so aptly:
To say we can do without [history] is like saying we can breathe without oxygen. It has made us what we are, and is in our bloodstream, in the language we speak, the culture we proclaim, the homes, streets and cities we live in. The call of the past to us is insistent; we cannot ignore it. It presses irredentist claims upon us, impatient for us to pass under its sway.
7.2 Neither tradition is likely to understand – and may even demonise – the other, if it is not recognised that both contributed to the development of politics within a confessional (or sectarian) framework in the 19th century, with religion as the badge of identity.
7.3 So origins are important, not least when considering the parades issue. Orangeism is distinctive in many respects, and not least in its longevity. It has been part of the warp and woof of Irish history for 207 years and has outlived all its protagonists. But, while Orangeism's old adversaries may be gone, the batallioned ghosts remain to haunt it. There is no statute of limitations on memory. When those who have no affinity with Orangeism see it in procession, many of them see history on the march. And they see Orangeism as having been throughout its long history, as well as today, on the wrong side, certainly on the ‘opposite’ side.
7.4 It is therefore important (without expressing any view of its opinions) to put the phenomenon of what many still regard as the ‘bogeyman’ of the last couple of hundred years of Irish history in context. Its rise in 1795 is now seen as a consequence rather than a cause of the tensions of the time, the product of long-standing feuds and economic rivalries which the norms of the period (and of many periods in Irish history) made it acceptable to settle by violence.
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- The Long Road to Peace in Northern IrelandPeace Lectures from the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University, pp. 296 - 305Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007