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	Craigavon Historical Society
		The Parish of Drumcree is a Church of Ireland rural parish on the northern side of Portadown in County Armagh.
		Drumcree which means "Ridge of the Branch" (of Branchy Tree) may well in days of old have been a centre for Druid worship.
		A new Rectory was built at Drumcree in 1826 under the supervision of the Rector Charles Alexander.
	www.geocities.com /craigavonhs/rev/pickeringparish.html (1008 words)

	Drumcree Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Drumcree Church is the parish church of Drumcree, a rural Church of Ireland parish to the north of Portadown in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
		The Irish Church parish of Drumcree was formed in 1110 and had sixty-six townlands lying to the west of the River Bann.
		In 1172, following the Synod of Cashel, Drumcree parish, together with the rest of the Irish Church, was subsumed by the Church of Rome.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Drumcree.htm (713 words)

	CAIN: Issues: Parades: Drumcree developments
		Events at Drumcree since 1995 have brought the issue of parades in Northern Ireland to the forefront of the political agenda.
		The main difference between the run-up to Drumcree IV and the three previous years was the fact that the Parades Commission was in place and was legally responsible for making decisions on whether or not contentious parades should be banned, re-routed, or allowed to proceed.
		In Drumcree stones and bottles were thrown at the police, and rioters attempted to break through the police barricades.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/parade/develop.htm (6203 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Grand Orange Lodge
		Drumcree is one of two 'mother' churches in Portadown - the other being Seagoe Parish Church.
		In an attempt to resolve the situation regarding their traditional parade home from Drumcree Parish Church via the Garvaghy Road, Portadown District, together with representatives of County Armagh Grand Lodge, and the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, has had discussions with a wide and influential range of people over a sustained period.
		In the period since the present Drumcree Stand-Off began the officers of Portadown District L.O.L. No. 1 have worked incessantly in an attempt to resolve the serious impasse which they now find themselves in an intense round of meetings and consultations have continued on virtually a daily basis.
	www.grandorange.org.uk /parades/annual_drumcree_parade.html (1554 words)

	The Irish News: Drumcree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first service was held in 1807 and Orangemen have been marching to a service at Drumcree on the Sunday before July 12 for 191 years.
		Drumcree church was chosen because there was no parish church in Portadown centre then and Drumcree was the nearest.
		In the lead up to this years' conflict, the Reverend John Pickering, Rector of Drumcree Parish Church has ignored calls from the General Synod of the Church of Ireland to withdraw the invitation to Orangemen to attend a service in Drumcree Parish.
	www.irishnews.com /drumcree/drum2.html (333 words)

	Civil Rights and Drumcree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This campaign is combined with the similar "Disband the RUC" campaign, aimed at crippling our police service and enabling IRA gunmen to impose 'peoples justice' on their communities.
		On 5 July 1998, Portadown Orangemen were refused 'permission' to walk along the Garvaghy Road, the main arterial route to Portadown town centre from the annual church service at Drumcree Parish Church.
		We are determined and resolute as we hold aloft the torch of freedom at Drumcree.
	www.orangenet.org /civilrights/civil.htm (928 words)

	RTE News - British government praises restraint of Drumcree protest
		Meanwhile, numbers at Drumcree swelled as the evening wore on, but the peaceful atmosphere was maintained.
		He urged those who wishw to cause trouble to stay away, and said that he hoped that the ecumenical clergy would realise that their way was not the way of the Portadown Orange Order.
		Last night the situation in Drumcree was described as relatively peaceful, though at one stage about 1000 protestors were said to have been at the security barrier.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0704/drumcree.html (1032 words)

	Marching Down the Queen's Highway: The Orange Order's Road to Drumcree -- The Wild Geese Today
		However, it was in the small village of Drumcree that the conflict over the right to march came to a head in 1996.
		Also the conflict at Drumcree, while initially appearing to unite the Protestant community, has revealed internal divisions, with even David Trimble (who used the conflict at Drumcree to win control of the Unionist Party) distancing himself from the more populist elements of the Orange Order.
		Drumcree, however, might eventually prove to be the final march of the Orange Order.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/oran_or2.html (2133 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Northern Ireland Marching Season
		Currently, the Orangemen have stationed themselves around the Drumcree church and are establishing an encampment in a peaceful stand-off with the security forces.
		During that summer, the RUC capitulated on its original decision to re-route the Drumcree Church parade after Orangemen and their supporters caused massive disruption across the region.
		Initial observations by Human Rights Watch researchers -- present in Portadown to monitor security operations at Drumcree -- indicate that the security forces are currently operating in conformity with internationally recognized standards for the conduct and accountability of law enforcement officials.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/nireland98/july5.htm (569 words)

	DRUMCREE
		The annual parade to Drumcree parish church, is almost as old as the Orange Order itself.
		The prevention of the Drumcree church parade is not an isolated incident though.Much preplanned violence was used against the Orange Order with extensive use of home manufactured weapons.
		It is important to emphasise that the Drumcree walk was and is a church parade, and because of this, accordion bands provide the music and only hymn tunes are played.
	cdfbm.50megs.com /photo4.html (819 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Street theatre at Drumcree
		Far from signalling a return to the 'old conflict', Drumcree captures the exhaustion of both nationalism and Unionism - and the dearth of political principle at the heart of the peace process.
		Far from representing an underlying political conflict, the 'Battle of Drumcree' is usually over symbols (the right to fly flags and bang drums), or cultural diversity (where hardened Orangemen defend the right to 'express themselves'), or protection (with nationalists calling on the British state to protect them from Protestants).
		But in their attempt to feed off Drumcree, nationalist and Unionist politicians merely expose the hole at the heart of their politics, where neither side has anything of substance to fight for.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006D977.htm (1067 words)

	CNN.com - Calm urged on eve of Drumcree march - July 7, 2001
		The "Drumcree Sunday" parade by up to 2,000 members of the staunchly pro-British Orange Order is among the most contentious of the summer "marching season" held to commemorate ancient battlefield victories over Irish Catholics.
		Watson, who is the County Armagh Grand Master of the Order and a Stormont Assembly member, claimed the commission had not given serious consideration to proposals aimed at resolving the dispute.
		Orangemen have maintained a continuous protest on the hill at Drumcree since they were first successfully prevented from parading down the Garvaghy Road in 1998.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/07/nireland.drumcree (646 words)

	Drumcree: 2,000 Days and Counting - Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Two thousand days after the Drumcree parade was blocked from passing along the Garvaghy Road, the protest still goes on.
		WHEN Portadown Orangemen set off down Drumcree hill to complete their annual parade in 1998, they did not expect to get far.
		The Drumcree parade was targeted, he believes, because Portadown is seen as the home of Orangeism.
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=1206 (1251 words)

	The Drumcree Orange Parade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The July anniversary church parade to Drumcree is the oldest Orange parade in the entire world.
		The first Orange parade to Drumcree Parish Church took place in 1807 a mere decade after the formation of the Orange institution a few miles down the road in Loughgall.
		The parade route, the most direct and only one available at the time was traditionally through Obins Street on the outward leg of the journey and via 'The Walk' or the Garvaghy Road as it later became known, on the return leg.
	www.orangenet.org /civilrights/parade.htm (466 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		BROWNED off Orangemen are swapping the ritual of the annual Drumcree stand-off this year for a family holiday in the sun.
		It's a case of viva Espana, we're off to sunny Spain, as many Orangemen abandon the Drumcree march in the wake of the violence, which marred last year's annual church parade.
		Another Portadown Orange stalwart veteran confirmed he too was abandoning his annual Drumcree vigil in favour of the tropical island paradise of St Vincent.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=415646 (379 words)

	Drumcree by Chris Ryder and Vincent Kearney
		Drumcrees Two to Six have followed the same pattern, testing the peace process and even costing lives, such as the three young Quinn brothers who perished when their home was petrol-bombed at the height of the tension in 1998.
		As the marching season of 2001 approaches, with every indication that Drumcree Seven will take place as feared, Chris Ryder and Vincent Kearney explore the background to the stand-offs, the underlying motives of both Protestant and Catholic factions, and the ongoing efforts of the peacemakers to resolve this bitter dispute.
		In 1996 he was a member of the Belfast Telegraph team who received the Northern Ireland All News Media award for coverage of the Drumcree stand-off and its aftermath.
	www.methuen.co.uk /titles.php/title/Drumcree (267 words)

	Drumcree Revisited
		But what we need is rain, buckets of it, pouring thunderously down on the happy campers in Drumcree.
		Most of these marches pass off peacefully but, as Drumcree shows us, it only takes one exception to turn back time, back to the dark, medieval days when papists were papists and witches were burnt.
		The fledgling Northern Irish Assembly is led by David Trimble, who carved his political career on the barricades at Drumcree.
	radio.weblogs.com /0110115/oldies/drumcreerevisited.html (805 words)

	CNN.com - Police and mob clash at Drumcree - July 7, 2002
		British army engineers had earlier erected barriers across the bridge below Drumcree Church, where the local Orangemen hold their annual service, and at which point the parade was stopped on the orders of the Parades Commission.
		Razor wire was strung across the fields beside the bridge to prevent any effort to outflank the barrier and soldiers, including paratroopers fanned out across the countryside.
		He said: "I have worn uniform all my adult life trying to serve both sides of this community and to be spat upon and have my officers spat upon and have missiles thrown at us as we were trying to afford the dignity this institution asked us to afford them is very disturbing."
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/07/drumcree/index.html (560 words)

	storySouth / Stephen Ausherman
		I suppose now I should've told her that it was my own penmanship after a few pints in a dark pub, but I didn't want to undermine my credibility as a journalist.
		At the lowest point is Drumcree Bridge, scarcely wider than a country lane, with stout stone walls on each side to prevent motorist from driving off into the creek below.
		I hardly noticed it, wouldn't have recognized a bridge at all were it not for the enormous yellow-and-fl striped barrier constructed upon it.
	www.storysouth.com /summer2004/drumcree.html (3293 words)

	The Irish News: Drumcree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In particular, the procession which took Orangemen from Drumcree Parish Church, on the outskirts of Portadown, Co Armagh, through the Catholic Garvaghy Road every Sunday before the 'Twelfth' of July.
		What is essentially a local issue has escalated into a wider political issue with implications for the peace of the whole of the country.
		Ironically the trouble at Drumcree in 1995 occurred during the first year of the ceasefires announced by republican and loyalist paramilitary groups, but it vividly illustrated that conflict still remained in Northern Ireland.
	www.irishnews.com /drumcree (195 words)

	The Road to Drumcree
		The first confrontation came in 1995 when Orangemen leaving the church service at Drumcree found their way blocked by a sit-down protest from *residents groups on the Garvaghy Road and a dividing line of RUC officers.
		Police were attacked, buses and cars burned and millions of pounds of damage caused as Drumcree Mark III followed the precedent set by Drumcree I and II.
		The violence, sparked by the re-routing, was now mirrored by an outpouring of intense anger and pent up hatred from the Nationalist population towards the Protestants.
	members.tripod.com /~Ulster_01/drumcree.html (475 words)

	BBC News \| Northern Ireland \| Understanding Northern Ireland
		In 1995, he appeared at the annual Drumcree parade, hand-in-hand with hardliner Ian Paisley before hundreds of Orangemen after they won the stand-off with the nationalist community of the Garvaghy Road.
		Five years later he became the surprise winner of the leadership race in the wake of his Drumcree appearance.
		Despite his reputation from the 1970s and opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Mr Trimble showed he was prepared to upset unionists by meeting with the main party leaders in the Republic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/profiles/david_trimble.stm (741 words)

	Drumcree Parish, Co. Armagh, Ireland, ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		DRUMCREE, a parish, in the barony of O'NEILLAND WEST, county of ARMAGH, and province of ULSTER; containing, with the post-town and district parish of Portadown, 12,355 inhabitants.
		According to the Ordnance survey, it comprises 13,385 statute acres: there is a very large tract of bog, most of which is valuable.
		The parish church is a large ancient building, with a tower and spire; and a chapel of ease was built at Portadown, in 1826.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/arm/drumcree2.htm (400 words)

	The Hindu : Police disperse mob in Drumcree
		Water cannon were used for the first time in 30 years to drive Protestant protesters seeking to move down the largely Catholic Garvaghy Road back up the hill to Drumcree church in Portadown.
		Peter Mandelson said the violence would not force a reversal of the decision by the parades commission to ban Protestant Drumcree Orangemen from marching along the Catholic Garvaghy Road.
		In 1997 the Drumcree parade was banned but finally allowed down the Garvaghy Road after days of intense Protestant violence across Northern Ireland.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/07/06/stories/03060009.htm (272 words)

	The Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition
		Mindful of the fact that he used the Drumcree issue to gain the leadership of the Unionist Party several years ago, his recent public statements should be seen as part of the Trimble campaign to retain that leadership.
		At the closure of that process, Brian Currin was also highly critical of the politicisation of the Drumcree issue by Unionists, particularly at the time of the Weston Park talks.
		Reports wish suggest an imminent or historic breakthrough is about to reached over Drumcree can only be described, therefore, as speculative and wishful invention by the reporter or reporters concerned.
	www.garvaghyroad.org /2003_06_29_grrcupdates_archive.html (1338 words)

	DRUMCREE - AN RUC OFFICER REMEMBERS 4799
		Constable McBrien was a member of an RUC Mobile Support Unit deployed as part of the major security operation to police the determination by the Parades Commission that an Orange Order parade should not march along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road, in Portadown.
		In the ten day period from "Drumcree Sunday", 76 police officers were injured.
		Referring to the scenes of violence and disorder as some 30,000 protesters gatherd on Drumcree Hill, he continued : "After a few hours we were told to move down to a point where the fence had been considerably weakened.
	www.ruc.police.uk /press/1999/jul/injury.htm (647 words)

	Garvaghy Road Monthly Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After midnight the loyalists leave Drumcree and make their way to the town centre where yet another illegal march is held.
		These are: avoidance of any action before or after the service which would diminish the sanctity of worship; obedience to the law of the land; and respecting the integrity of the Church by word and action and avoiding the use of all church property in any protest.
		Orange demo's at Drumcree on July 12 fail to attract huge numbers as the boys' mother says the Orange Order should never be allowed down the Garvaghy Road.
	www.members.aol.com /garvaghy/dossier.html (5458 words)

	CNN.com - Standoff at Drumcree - July 8, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The "Drumcree Sunday" parade by up to 2,000 members of the staunchly pro-British Orange Order commemorates battlefield victories over Irish Catholics.
		Protestants insist a ban on marching their traditional route is an infringement of civil and religious liberties, while Catholics argue equally vehemently that the marches are humiliating.
		Since the parades commission's first ban, Drumcree has become a rallying call for both sides of the sectarian divide and has been the scene of violent confrontation.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/08/drumcree.march (432 words)

	CNN.com - Tight security for Drumcree parade - July 7, 2002
		On Saturday, British army engineers set up a barrier across the bridge below Drumcree Church, where the local Orangemen hold their annual service, and at which point the parade will be stopped on orders of the Parades Commission.
		Razor wire has also been strung across the fields beside the bridge to prevent any effort to outflank the barrier and soldiers, including paratroopers fanned out across the countryside.
		In past years Drumcree has been the spark that has lit the fuse on summer weeks of street violence.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/06/drumcree (489 words)

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