The tea’s poured, gloves are pressed and collarettes are laid out across the city, just as they have been in Northern Ireland homes for generations.
🙏The bowler hat, the white gloves and the Bible at the centre of it all.
Tomorrow, Monday 13th July, NI celebrates the Twelfth and the 336th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.
And if you’re wondering why we walk on the 13th this year, it's because the Twelfth falls on a Sunday, and for our members worship comes before walking. That tells you something about this day. Faith is not an accessory, our faith is the heart of it.
⚔️The Twelfth commemorates the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and the civil and religious liberty that flowed from it.
The Boyne secured the Glorious Revolution, and with it the foundations of how these islands are governed to this day: the legacy of that is a monarchy under the law, a parliament that has met every year since 1689, no taxes without the people's consent, judges no government can dismiss, regular elections, a free press and the freedom to worship according to conscience ⚖️
When America wrote its Bill of Rights a century later, it borrowed the very words of 1689. These liberties belong to everyone, and that’s why we walk.
🎶The Twelfth is a day of thanksgiving, remembrance and celebration, of family and friendship, music and colour and pride in who we are.
To every member walking tomorrow: walk with pride and with dignity. You carry more than a collarette, you carry the story of the generations who walked before you.
To spectators, visitors and neighbours across our land and beyond - you’re very welcome. Whether the Twelfth is your own tradition or something you’ve never seen up close, come along, enjoy the day and ask us about it.
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