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 ...

That was the first crucial turning point. The Northern Ireland state had shown itself to be unreformable. It had been designed to serve the Protestant majority and they had a built-in majority against ...

Sinn Fein has made a request for Belfast City Hall to be lit up to celebrate the Republic’s National Day of Commemoration around July 11 — just as bonfires are lit up across the city by loyalists ...

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 ...