Ireland’s history is a story of division, unity, and fragile peace. This video explains the complex political and cultural ...

The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

Victor Barker says his 12-year-old son James, who was killed in the Omagh bomb, was robbed of his bright and happy future.

Taoiseach Jack Lynch's request followed many such demands by nationalists for the UN's engagement in Northern Ireland ...

The Protestant cleric and unionist leader remains one of the most distinctive and controversial figures in modern Irish ...

Former British military chiefs have called for a judicial review after a coroner ruled four IRA terrorists were unlawfully ...

In Dublin for a screening of I Am A Noise, a powerful documentary on her life, folk icon Joan Baez discusses her first act of ...

The cost of dealing with Northern Ireland's troubled past could reach ... because it will remove a block on former Troubles internees, including former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, seeking ...

Belfast author Peadar Thompson’s ground-breaking new book on GAA members killed during the Troubles is set for release in the ...

was his final reading in the U.S.) “He wrote about the Troubles,” Mr. Waters continued, invoking the term used to characterize the sectarian strife in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...