Councillors agree for its wellbeing and communities committee to take delegated authority over bonfires on council owned ...

The annual Orange marches of Protestants in Northern Ireland are highly contentious ... Celebrations begin on July 11 every year with bonfires and fireworks before thousands of members of ...

Sinn Fein has made a request for Belfast City Hall to be lit up to celebrate the Republic’s National Day of Commemoration ...

Bonfires on 15 August are traditional in some nationalist parts of Northern Ireland to mark the Catholic ... the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 when the Protestant King William III - also known ...

Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time in what has been described as a “hugely significant and historic moment”. How likely is a united Ireland and when could ...

Protestant Orangemen in the new state of Northern Ireland found themselves in increasing positions of power and control over the Catholic and nationalist minority in the north. The Great War ...

He added that a small number of Eleventh Night bonfires on ... swore to defend the Protestant faith. On 12 July, marching bands from Orange lodges all over Northern Ireland parade through villages ...