Drumcree

The year of 1995 was the first summer of peace in Northern Ireland-except for the small market town of Portadown. There, in defiance of the wishes of the Catholic residents of the Garvaghy Road, the local lodge of the Protestant Orange Order insisted on their traditional march down the road on the way back from their annual church parade at Drumcree. The subsequent yearly stand-offs have gone down in political history and are chronicled in this comprehensive and absorbing study, fully updated for this paperback edition."Drumcree: The Orange Order's Last Stand is part of a slowly expanding literature that sheds light on the Protestant mentality of Northern Ireland."-Glasgow Herald"Its history of the foundation of the Orange Order at nearby Loughgall and the evolution of Portadown as the Orange Citadel ... is invaluable for aficionados and veterans of this impasse."-Irish Times