The Republicans have a few, the big ones commemorate the Easter Rising and the other the 1981 hunger strikes. No one disputes the right of either side to hold parades or memorials, it's the insistence of the Orange order on marching through Nationalist areas that inevitably leads to counter protests and frequently ends in a riot.
I usually avoid looking at the Northern Ireland situation as a Catholic/Protestant issue, it's much more of a cultural and ethnic thing. On the republican side there have been periods in recent history where IRA membership would have earned you an excommunication from the Catholic church.
The Orange Order is an exception, they are a overtly sectarian organization whose reason for existence is save the world from the foul clutches of the papists. They spent the last century in mortal terror of octogenarian Italians in Vatican City.
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