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

Aiken, a lecturer in the Queens University Belfast Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, will present “Forgetting the Irish Civil War (1922-23)? One Hundred Years of Silence Breakers,” on October 25 ...

No one could calculate the number of historical movies that get everything wrong: it’s all of them. To take one at random, ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Thirty six years ago today, during the 1969-98 Northern Ireland conflict, Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane was shot ...

The former home of a multicultural centre in south Belfast targeted in a series of ... it has taken a long time to get ready,” Mr Ali told the Irish News. PSNI told charity to reassure loyalists ...

Opened in 1949, the Civil Service ground at Stormont staged it first full ODI in June 2006 when Ireland took on England in a one-off match. It had undergone substantial renovation immediately ...

“Mr. and Mrs. Cooney and his fiancee Emmaleen would like to thank the staff at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital who have worked tirelessly to save John’s life and for everyone who has sent ...

Irish boxer John Cooney has died aged 28 from ... as he lost to Welshman Nathan Howells in a super-featherweight bout in Belfast last Saturday. The fight was stopped in the ninth round and Cooney ...

McIlroy said he learned that Trump is not a fan of LIV Golf’s 54-hole format, which includes team and individual elements and ...

SINN FÉIN Belfast MLA Aisling Reilly has added her ... Reacting to the shock loss to the Irish boxing community, Reilly said in a press release: "John Cooney was a talented boxer with a bright ...

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...