Former IRA volunteer Paddy McMenamin talks about his new book that charts his political life story in Belfast during the Troubles, to qualifying as a secondary school teacher in his 50s.

But this isn’t the definitive piece about the Troubles. What was it like growing up in West Belfast in the time after The Troubles? What was your impression of that time before? Did it seep into ...

Leisure and leaving the country In the 1970s, areas that once were ... with their opponents reluctant to travel to Belfast. Throughout the Troubles, people went on getting married and being ...

The daughter of an Official IRA commander shot dead in the early 1970s who was sexually abused by a relative in the Republic said she would would have been safer on the streets of Belfast.

Belfast City Council has held a "day of reflection" to acknowledge the "hurt and pain" caused by the Troubles. More than 3,500 people died and thousands more were injured during 30 years of ...

It was back in the late 1970s and the Current Affairs department ... would exchange London for Belfast. It was not just the Troubles, but Belfast? Those mean streets and endless rain?

Tributes have been paid to the acclaimed Belfast-born poet Michael Longley, who has died at the age of 85. The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said he regarded him "as a peerless poet" and that ...

A legal challenge against the act, which offers a conditional amnesty to people accused of Troubles-related crimes, has begun in Belfast. It has been brought by a number of loved ones of victims ...