Ernest Blythe was born in 1889 into a unionist farming family with an 80-acre farm close to Magheragall, near Lisburn.

Introduction to "Misfit: a revolutionary life" by Captain Jack White (Livewire Publications, Dublin). Text from Revolt Against Plenty Website.

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

Disney Plus' moving new series Say Nothing shines a spotlight on the two sisters, who became involved with the Irish Republican Army during the Troubles.

There are two things that can be said about the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The first thing is that it has worked out ...

Old hostilities still bubbled up in the new Free State in 1925, as former Fermanagh and Tyrone TD Seán Milroy found out ...

In north-west Syria, more than 700 abandoned Byzantine settlements called Dead Cities, stretch across rocky hills and plains, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a grim starkness and raw legacy to pain inflicted and endured arising from the Civil ... Civil War. It was summed up in a memorandum authored by Seán Lemass in 1944; the Irish needed ...

A judge at the Belfast High Court said on Tuesday that he intends to list Soldier F's trial for September, though an exact ...

Of considerable relevance to the Irish economy is what he has promised for the pharmaceutical sector, Ireland’s most significant export commodity to the US market. Keith Duggan in Washington and ...