For recent generations, annual celebration of protestant victory served also to remind catholics of defeat for the catholic cause, when continuing catholic disadvantage could be viewed as the fruits of that 300 year old victory. Positive initiatives taken by representatives of The Apprentice Boys of Derry (formed to commemorate the incident which helped precipitate the siege ie the closing of Ferryquay Gate in the face of the perceived threat from The earl of Antrimís Catholic troops in December 1688) and representatives from the catholic Bogside, hold out hopes for agreed interpretations of a divisive past and the cultivation of mutual respect for opposing views.