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The Drumcree conflict or Drumcree standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the town of Portadown, Northern Ireland.The town is mainly Protestant and hosts numerous Protestant marches each summer, but has a significant Catholic minority.
Portadown is a predominantly Protestant town and ancestral home of the Orange Order. Other loyalist organisations were strongly represented in the town during the Troubles such as: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). [citation needed]
Portadown is the site of the long-running Drumcree dispute. Catholics have protested the yearly marches through their part of town by the Protestant Orange Order, who are celebrating the 1690 victory over Catholics by William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne. Often violence and protests have been sparked by this event.
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16 March: the INLA shot and injured a prominent member of the Orange Order and brother of the former commander of the UDA Mid-Ulster Brigade in Portadown, County Armagh. [55] [56] 25 March: a gun and grenade attack was carried out on the Loyalist Queen's Bar in Thomas Street, Portadown, County Armagh, in retaliation for the murder of Thomas ...
The Orange Order was founded in 1795 in and around the County Armagh town of Portadown. The first Orange service and 'church parade' from Drumcree was on 1 July 1795. [6] That parade was instigated by Protestant ministers in the Portadown area. One of them, a Reverend George Maunsell, gave a sermon in June 1795.
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On Sunday 6 July at 3:30am, 1,500 soldiers and riot police [26] swept into the nationalist area in 100 armoured vehicles. [27] They took control of Garvaghy Road so it would be free for the marchers. [23] This led to clashes with about 300 protesters, who began a sit-down protest on the road. They were forcibly removed by riot police.