While the Troubles took place during the last half of the 20th century, the foundation of the ongoing conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland goes back centuries.

In the late 1900s, Protestants and Catholics were in conflict over who should rule Northern Ireland, the British or the Irish. The time was dubbed "The Troubles." Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe's ...

The Troubles arose from longstanding grievances between Catholics and Protestants who held deeply ... In 1993, British Prime Minister John Major issued a declaration that laid the ground for ...

The chaotic scenes have stirred memories of decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict, known as “The Troubles.” A 1998 peace deal ended large-scale violence but did not resolve Northern Ireland ...

How did Northern Ireland descend into the cycle of violence that marked the period known as the 'Troubles', and what was done to find a solution? In 1963, the prime minister of Northern Ireland ...

Often overlooked is the role of mainline Protestant clergy, in part because of the well-documented story of white mainline Protestant decline: Through the early 1960s, about half of Americans ...

In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement ended Ireland's conflict known as The Troubles. But the people of these two countries, Northern Ireland - British & Protestant - and the Republic of Ireland ...

His was a Catholic family living in a Protestant part of town, a situation that became precarious in the early 1970s with the escalating violence of the Troubles. He went to school in the city ...

When he was a lad it was religiously mixed. Within two years of the Troubles starting, it was entirely Protestant. Georgie himself had no sectarian hang-ups. There didn't seem to be any particular ...

Cab drivers, both Catholic and Protestant, spend about 90 minutes with tourists explaining the history of the official Troubles, the ongoing unofficial Troubles and the dozens of murals — some ...

During the Troubles, Northern Ireland politics ... The UUP maintained strong links with the Protestant Orange Order, whilst its first prime minister, Sir James Craig, referred to Stormont as ...