Unionism on the Twelfth: ‘no-one likes us and we don’t care’

Dr Aaron Edwards is author of A People Under Siege: The Unionists of Northern Ireland from Partition to Brexit and Beyond

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Members of the Orange Order gather as they prepare at the Clifton Street Orange Hall to parade the streets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12 July 2023. The annual Twelfth of July celebrations in Northern Ireland mark the protestant King William of Orange's victory over the Catholic King James in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne. Photograph: Mark Marlow / EPA
Members of the Orange Order gather as they prepare at the Clifton Street Orange Hall to parade the streets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12 July 2023. The annual Twelfth of July celebrations in Northern Ireland mark the protestant King William of Orange's victory over the Catholic King James in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne. Photograph: Mark Marlow / EPA

It’s the Twelfth, and to mark Northern unionism and loyalism’s day of celebration Hugh Linehan talks to Dr Aaron Edwards, author of A People Under Siege: The Unionists of Northern Ireland from Partition to Brexit and Beyond.

They discuss the negative narrative that has surrounded unionism as the political power of nationalism has grown and what it would take to map out a more positive unionist vision for Northern Ireland in the years ahead.