11th night bonfires in pictures
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Bonfires were lit across Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland on Monday night
Ballymacash bonfire in Lisburn shortly before it was lit on the '11th night'
An 11th night bonfire in west Belfast's Highfield estate. Bonfires are lit in many loyalist areas of Northern Ireland on the eve of the Twelfth of July parades
Sinn Féin election posters and Irish flags were put on this bonfire in Chobham Street in east Belfast
The fire at Chobham Street being lit. The bonfire was built beside a playpark which had to have equipment removed and houses boarded up and sprayed down by the fire service
Crowds at the bonfire in the lower Shankill area of west Belfast
Two terraced houses were gutted and one damaged close to the bonfire at Hopewell Square in the lower Shankill
The aftermath of the fire at Hopewell Square
The damage done to one of the houses in Hopewell Square
The moment this bonfire in east Belfast caught light seemed to catch some by surprise
Not all the bonfires were huge affairs. This is the one in the Glenfield area of Carrickfergus
The fire service said out of the 123 calls it received on Monday from 18:00 BST, 42 were bonfire related
Firefighters had to intervene at 16 fires, including this one at Cluan Place in east Belfast
However, the vast majority of the bonfires passed without incident