Loyalist marching in the newly-created Northern Ireland

The twelfth: glorious to some... but maybe not to the woman seen (from 00:15) walking past the orange march in the opposite direction. In July 1922, Northern Ireland the entity was barely a year old. James Craig, here stridently addressing the crowd (he was about as orange as they come) was its first prime minister after the painful partition from the south. So Ulster was newsworthy, hence this item for the Topical Budget cinema newsreel.

A couple of generations later, Northern Ireland was newsworthy again, bringing scenes of orange (and other) marches and fiery speeches back to Britain's screens - and the world's - as recurring flashpoints in the ongoing 'troubles'. They were shown on television rather than in cinemas, in colour and with sound. But many of the images were remarkably similar to those captured in newsreels like this one.