Marching on
Summer in Northern Ireland is often a season of unrest. It is a time when pro-British Protestants hold marches in the British-ruled province, a tradition seen as provocative by Irish nationalists who want to be part of a united Ireland.
This year, violence broke out during demonstrations over restrictions on the marches, with Protestant youths hurling petrol bombs at police, and officers responding with water canon and at least one baton round in Belfast.
A member of the Protestant Orange Order walks past a Union Flag at Rossnowlagh Strand in County Donegal.
Spectators watch the annual Orange Order Parade at Drumcree Parish Church in Portadown.
Onlookers wearing Union Flag colours watch the parade at Rossnowlagh Strand.
A member of the Protestant Orange Order holds his Bowler hat as he attends the marches.
An Orange Order member poses with his son ahead of the parade at Rossnowlagh Strand.
A member of the Baptist church preaches next to a gift stall ahead of the Protestant march.
A marching band member takes part in the parade.
Members of the Orange Order are flanked by riot police as they parade past the nationalist Ardoyne area of the Crumlin Road in Belfast.
A man photographs police after climbing on top of an armoured police Land Rover, ahead of an Orange Order parade.
Riot police and a water cannon block the Lower Newtownards road in East Belfast after they came under attack from loyalists throwing petrol bombs, bricks, bottles and fireworks on the fourth night of unrest.
A loyalist gestures at police in the Woodvale Road area of North Belfast, on the second night of violence.
A Protestant youth shoots fireworks at police.
A police officer receives medical treatment after being injured during clashes with loyalists.
Paramilitary tattoos stand out on the arm of a Loyalist protester holding a Union flag in the Woodvale Road area of North Belfast.
