People take part in a Twelfth of July parade in Belfast, part of the traditional Twelfth commemorations. The loyalist parades ...

​An Orange Order parade has passed the interface Ardoyne shops area in north Belfast without incident. The Police Service of ...

Tens of thousands of people joined Twelfth of July celebrations across Northern Ireland, braving scorching temperatures for ...

Tens of thousands are set to take to the streets across Northern Ireland for the Orange Order’s annual July 12 parades. The festivities will be spread across 19 main locations to mark the 334th ...

FIREFIGHTERS IN NORTHERN Ireland said they dealt with a challenging night as bonfires were lit ahead of the 12 July ...

FIREFIGHTERS in Northern Ireland said they dealt with a challenging night as bonfires were lit ahead of the July 12 ...

Large crowds have gathered in County Donegal for the annual Orange Order parade in the seaside village of Rosssnowlagh. About ...

With more than six decades of Twelfth celebrations under his collarette, the Grand Secretary of the Orange Order has seen ...

The Orange Order is the largest Protestant organisation in Northern Ireland with at least 75,000 members, some of them in the Republic of Ireland. Its origins date from the seventeenth century battle ...

B E L F A S T, Northern Ireland, July 12 -- A wall of British army steelprevented a small Orange Order parade from passing a hostileCatholic neighborhood today as mass demonstrations by ...

THE Orange Order is central to the Twelfth of July and the north’s ‘marching season’, and is the largest and best-known of the Protestant fraternal organisations known as loyal orders.

The Orange Order was founded 220 years ago, named after the king who defeated a Catholic army at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. On 31 August BBC Radio 4 will broadcast Orangemen On The Equator.