WOOL finds his favorite society among known and avowed Secessionists, (they put a speech into his mouth to the effect that if the loyalists are vulgar people and he has always been accustomed to ...

The second misconception is that the conflict is about religion, republicans being Catholic and loyalists being Protestant. It is not religion that lies at the root of the Troubles. The conflict ...

Particularly in the early years of the Troubles, a substantial number were specifically targeted because of their religion. Loyalist paramilitaries also repeatedly selected targets simply on the ...

The names of leading republicans like Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Bobby Sands are well known, but how many in Great ...

Some believe this was the official start of the Troubles. Eight months earlier, in January, a Loyalist mob had attacked a peaceful march, and the police had done virtually nothing to protect the ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar ...

Details of his activities are contained in a news book by author Martin Dillon, ‘The Sorrow and the Loss - The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women’, who says the loyalist ...

It follows a major legacy investigation, Operation Newham, which examined 125 murders in the 1970s.

Street in Belfast affiliated with the loyalist group the Red Hand Commando If you’ve ... “One of my motivations for doing this was to increase the understanding of the Troubles here, on this side of ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.