The Faithful Tribe
An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions
RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS
To all my friends in the loyal institutions and especially to Henry (who dragged me into this in the first place), Lorraine, Erin and Thomas, my Northern Ireland family, who made researching this book such a joy.
Contents
1. Eight Parades, a Cancellation and Some Anthropological Notes from the War-zone
2. What Members of the Irish Loyal Institutions Do
3. Onlookers, Participants and Opponents: the Twelfth
8. ‘Conceived and brought forth by humble men’
9. A Century in the Life of a Lodge
12. The Rise of the Residents’ Groups
13. The Background to Drumcree
14. Drumcree One, 9–11 July 1995
16. The Drumcree Disaster, 7–11 July 1996
17. The Road to Drumcree Three: William Bingham’s Story
18. Drumcree Three: The Rest of the Story
19. Drumcree Four, 5 July 1998–?
Appendix: Draft Speech for the Prime Minister
1. Royal Black Preceptory No 800, Clogher, County Tyrone, circa 1930.
2. Tom Reid (as baby) at his first Twelfth, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, 1934.
3. Banter at ‘The Field’, Ballymoney, County Antrim, August 1989. (JFA Studio)
4. The annual re-enactment of the Battle of the Boyne at Scarva, County Down. (Bobbie Hanvey)
5. Making Lambeg drums in Belfast. (JFA Studio)
6. Three generations of the Brownlees family, Ballymena, County Antrim. (Bobbie Hanvey)
7. ‘If Northern Ireland Was Really “British”…’ (Martyn Turner/Irish Times)
8. Henry, Erin and Thomas Reid outside the Orange Hall in Glenageeragh, County Tyrone, 1995.
9. Gerard Rice of the Lower Ormeau Concerned Community. (MSI)
10. Donncha MacNiallis of the Bogside Residents’ Group. (Belfast Telegraph)
11. Martin McGuinness and Breandán MacCionnaith walk the Garvaghy Road. (Dan Chung/Reuters)
12. Robert Saulters, Grand Master. (MSI)
13. Press Conference at Craigavon, County Armagh, 27 June 1997. (Belfast Telegraph)
14. Garvaghy Road, County Armagh, 6 July 1997. (John Giles/?? News)
15. Apprentice Boys Pageant, Londonderry, August 1997. (Mark Stakem)
16. RUC versus loyalists in Derry, aftermath of Apprentice Boys Parade, 1997. (Mark Stakem)
17. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at rally following Belfast anti-internment march, August 1997. (Mark Stakem)
18. Chinook picking up soldiers