“No surrender"-songs wafting out of narrow open doorways. Heavily tattooed men sitting in front of a local pub singing and shouting along to it. Children running back and forth collecting wood for a giant bonfire right in front of the huge wall that divides them from their Catholic neighbours. That night a great part of the Northern Irish Protestant or Loyalist community across the country will cheerfully watch hundreds of bonfires burn. It’s the 11th of July in Northern Ireland, a "constituent unit" of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland. Preparations are almost finished for the most important day in the Ulster Protestant calendar, the commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne, celebrating British victory over Irish Catholicism. The next day many of those standing besides the burning bonfire will support their local Lodges parading through the streets. To many people it is not surprising that in some of these streets the Orangemen are frequently met with protest and physical violence. Rerouting the parades seems not to be an option. A slogan on the wall says it all: “What We Have, We Hold.”