Youths stand next to wooden pallets meant for a bonfire. Eleventh Night is where bonfires made of wooden pallets are lit in Protestant loyalist neighborhoods. This year the bonfires have been scaled down due to safety concerns. The Bonfire Night, which celebrates the Battle of the Boyne, has a history of controversy and has been denounced for inciting sectarianism and hatred towards Irish Catholics and nationalists.

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