“The Oul’ McMahons’ Spade”, a 1973 epic by Matt Duggan, also features in McKeagney’s book, although its last verse implies ...

While there is a slight increase in support for Irish unity, overall, the people of Northern Ireland do not support Irish ...

That makes Northern Ireland, its territory and residents, part of that alliance. Ireland is not neutral by virtue of its ...

Northern Ireland was engulfed in a civil conflict known as The Troubles. The country—only a small section of the island of ...

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 ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

There are elements of the Protestant population which find ... It was quite astonishing how different life was in the Republic of Ireland during this time. These were the darkest days, though ...

6 July 1923 - The Protestant minority in the Irish Free State ask for no special privileges, but seeks only to receive the treatment they had been promised by the Government, a Church of Ireland ...

Saint Patrick is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. There was initially one single Church. Protestantism developed in the 16th century when people began to split from the Catholic Church.

Support for a united Ireland has increased by seven percentage points in just two years, a new survey shows. The growth in ...

The head of Protestants Against Gaelic ... against the use of Irish in the Republic with the upcoming launch of its new website, and in Northern Ireland where a revival of the language is gaining ...

From its beginnings in Ireland in 1795, the Orange Order centred its beliefs on the supremacy of the Protestant faith and the righteousness of the British Crown. The fraternal society spread ...