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Focuses on the role of parade disputes in the political process in Northern Ireland. Implications of parades and rituals for social and political relations; Move of Protestant organizations to hold traditional parades in predominantly Catholic areas; Historical background of the Orange Institution.

The article discusses the dispute system design and the mediation of contested parades for intensifying democracy in Northern Ireland. It relates such dispute system to theories of democratic dialogue such as the Habermasian theories of communication action. It explores the background of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission which demonstrates the contribution of such system to the resolution of identity-based conflict.

The article considers in detail a particular aspect of the political murals painted by the republican movement in Northern Ireland, namely their references to international themes rather than solely Irish matters.

"[T]he effects of regeneration in Belfast have been socially and spatially uneven, and sites of modernity sit uncomfortably close to communities that are still affected by poverty, division and violence."

"Ireland is sometimes said to be cursed with a surfeit of history; memory is seen as one of the principal causes of an endless cycle of violence. In contrast, this article focuses on collective memory and examines the way in which this was drawn on as a resource by republican and loyalist communities in terms of identity and endurance during almost four decades of conflict."

University of Ulster report, June 2012.