voices weren’t heard, and where the
rules changed from one day to the next—
we wouldn’t pay our taxes either.
The discussion of parades in marching
season in Ireland comes from Dominic
Bryan, Orange Parades: The Politics of
Ritual, Tradition and Control (Pluto
Press, 2000).
Desmond Hamill’s account of the
British Army in Northern Ireland is Pig
in the Middle: The Army in Northern
Ireland 1969–1984 (Methuen, 1985).
The ditty that begins “On the 15th of
August” appears on page 18. “The [IRA]
retaliated” is on page 32.
The statistics on deaths and violence