1. 12 July, Northern Ireland

2. People in Northern Ireland annually celebrate Orange men's Day to commemorate
the Battle of Boyne, which occurred on Ireland’s east coast in 1690. It is a bank
holiday on or after July 12 and often features marches. This day is known as
"Orange men's Day", "Orange Day", "the Glorious Twelfth" or just "the Twelfth".

3. What do people do?
What about the public life?
Schools, public offices, many businesses and organizations, and some stores are closed.
Public transport services may run on their regular or special holiday timetables.

4. Background

5. Up Helly Aa
refers to any of a variety
of fire festivals held in
Shetland, in Scotland,
annually in the middle of
winter to mark the end of
the yule season

6. In Lerwick, the capital of Scotland's Shetland
Islands, a fire festival named Up Helly Aa is held
every January to mark the end of the yule season.
Local participants called guizers celebrate their
Norse heritage, dressing in Viking gear and
marching through town with battle axes and torches
as they drag a ceremonial Viking longboat. At the
end of the procession, the guizers hurl their torches
onto the longboat and set it ablaze. After the flames
die down, guizers sing the traditional song "The
Norseman's Home" before a night of partying.

7. Flames engulf a viking longboat as it is set on fire during the Up Helly
Aa fire festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, on January 29,
2013.

8. Participants dressed as Vikings prepare to participate in the annual
Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, on January 29, 2013.

9. A young participant dressed as a Viking prepares for Up Helly Aa in
Lerwick, on January 29, 2013.

10. Participants, guizers, dressed as Vikings prepare for Up Helly Aa in
Lerwick, on January 29, 2013.

11. Young Jarl Squad vikings shout as they march through the streets on
the morning of the Up Helly Aa fire festival in Lerwick, on January 29,
2013.

12. Members of the 2013 "Jarl Squad" during the Up Helly Aa procession
on the Shetland Islands, on January 29, 2013.

13. Members of the Jarl Squad light torches during Up Helly Aa, on
January 29, 2013.

14. The Jarl Squad starts throwing torches at the longboat during Up
Helly Aa in Lerwick, on January 29, 2013.

15. A members of the Jarl Squad watches the longboat burn, on January
29, 2013.

16. Flames engulf the dragon's head of the viking longboat as it burns
during the Up Helly Aa fire festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands,
Scotland, on January 29, 2013.

17. The Queen's Official Birthday
The second or third Saturday in
June (England)

25. Holidays and Notable Special Days in
Great Britain .

26.  January
 1st New Year's Day
 5th Twefth Night
 February
 1st Candlemas Day
 14th Valentine's Day
 March
 1st St David's Day
(Wales National Day)
 17th St. Patrick's Day
(Ireland's Special Day)
 March/April
 Shrove Tuesday
 Lent
 Mothering Sunday
 Maundy Thursday
 Easter

27.  May
 1st May Day
 June
 Trooping the Colours
 Wimbledon Tennis Tournament
 July
 Swan Upping
 August
 Notting Hill Carnival
 September
 Harvest Festival
 October
 31st Halloween
 November
 5th Bonfire Night
 11th Remembrance Day
 30th St Andrew's Day
(Scotland's National Day)

28.  December
 Advent
 25th Christmas
 26th Boxing Day

29. Thank you for
your attention