A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target ...

I have also watched as peace has come to Northern Ireland. In the late 1980s, Belfast was a city of meandering front lines, abandoned warehouses, and rotting piers.

People in Northern Ireland can choose to be citizens of the U.K., citizens of the Republic of Ireland, or both. U2 performs on a television show in 1983, with an illustration from the cover of its ...

In 1998, after 29 years of bloody civil conflict, Northern Ireland was euphoric: Peace had finally been achieved. A political process, however difficult, was underway and the guns fell silent. The ...

The Troubles, as Northern Ireland's sectarian strife came to be known, erupted nearly 40 years ago, when Catholic Irish nationalists, favoring unification with the Irish Republic to the south, ...

US President Joe Biden will visit Belfast, Northern Ireland, this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), a peace deal that brought an end to decades of sectarian ...

Until then, most of what we knew about Northern Ireland’s “Troubles” came from watching the movie “Belfast” (Kenneth Branagh’s nostalgic 2021 film about his childhood), “Derry Girls ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Peter Olphert was 14 when Irish Republican Army gunmen killed his father. Forty years later, he says it’s time to set aside the past. Mark Thompson lost his ...

The beginnings of The Troubles conflict in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement ended Ireland's conflict known as The Troubles. But the people of these ...

POLITICS Northern Ireland's 'Troubles' may have quieted, but their echo has reached America The political violence in America in some ways resembles Northern Ireland's era of horror ...