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Black and white photograph of the Drumcree protest at Belfast City Hall. Man in the forefront wearing sunglasses, hat and holding a baton to his mouth. Featured person wearing a mask and hat in the background, and person under a white sheet with the eyes cut out in the foreground

Drumcree

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In 1995, the RUC prevented Orangemen from parading along the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road.

This resulted in a stand-off between police and Orangemen at Drumcree, and widespread rioting. The Garvaghy Road dispute provoked protests and heightened communal tensions every July between 1995 and 2000.

Issued by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland in direct response to another poster calling for the banning of Orange marches, this poster demands ‘Accommodation not Segregation’ and ‘Civil and Religious Liberties for ALL.’ 

Poster with icons of a man with a hat and orange sash, woman and two children. "Accommodation not segregation. Civil and Religious Liberties for ALL."

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