By the end of April, echoes of drums, trumpets and footsteps pounding the sidewalk echoed through the streets of Northern Ireland, raising the latest protest against the impending Brexit protocol on the inspection of goods crossing the Irish Sea. On Thursday, April 21st, we were marching in Castlederg, and on Friday it was in Belfast, east and north, and on Saturday evening we were expecting them at Derry: a convoy of loyal organizations and marching bands, marching Unionist politicians, activists and citizens. Under the Union Jack flags to declare their British identity.

These parades begin in the afternoon and end with speeches at night, as well as underlining the fear of an imminent political disappearance. The Northern Irish Assembly elections will be held on May 5, and many Unionists see this as an opportunity to fight not only against the Brexit protocol, but also for Northern Ireland’s position in the United Kingdom. They fear the very existence of their state for the sake of their culture and identity.

Unbelief reigns

According to the poll, Sinn Fin should emerge as the majority party, making its vice president Michelle O’Neill the first nationalist to head a local government. This would be an unprecedented insult to the Unionists and a step towards the reunification of Ireland. Because Sinn Fin’s goal is the disappearance of Northern Ireland. Its representatives do not even pronounce its name, but instead refer to it by the term “north.” Demographic evolution feeds unionists: Catholics [majoritairement nationalistes] Sooner than the Protestants [principalement unionistes].

Distrust dominates the parades that have been following each other for a year. The biggest one was in April in Lurgan, Armag County. A real show of strength, inviting more than 60 organizations and more than 10,000 participants, paraded through the streets with royal names modeled on the cities founded by Protestant settlers in the seventeenth century.^And Century.

“We are still subject