Mr Wilson was among a group of 19 elderly Protestant men who ... in 1971 as violence raged in Northern Ireland. Nearly 2,000 people, most of them Catholic, were locked up over the next four ...

Having spent time at my father’s birthplace of Northern Ireland during “the ... Scot and English Protestants, took over the indigenous (Catholic) population’s farmlands.

The Ulster Plantation of 1609, intended to replace native Catholic Irish residents with Protestant settlers ... More recent divisions in Northern Ireland date to the 1921 treaty that ended the ...

Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland’s Roman Catholic minority (34.2 ... and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were ...

In the current debate on Irish reunification, it is striking how little consideration has been given to exactly what sort of constitutional structures would be best for a newly unified state.

and the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland between the Protestant unionists (loyalists) and Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans). The rose of brotherly love was wilted by violence since ...

In Northern Ireland it was Protestant-sectarian, majority rule. The Unionists who wanted reform were in a minority, beleaguered amidst traditional “keep the Catholics down” Unionists. I once asked a ...