Orange Parades: The Politics of Ritual, Tradition and Control (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

In the first major study of the Protestant Loyalist Orange Order in Northern Ireland, Dominic Bryan provides a detailed ethnographic and historical study of Orange Order parades. He looks at the development of the parades, the history of disputes over the parades, the structure and politics of the Orange Order, the organisation of loyalist bands, the role of social class in Unionist politics – and the anthropology of ritual itself.

Dominic Bryan is a reader at Queens University Belfast, he worked previously as a research officer at the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster, Coleraine and has published widely on Irish History, including the book Orange Parades (Pluto Press, 2000).