US President Joe Biden will visit Belfast, Northern Ireland, this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), a peace deal that brought an end to decades of sectarian ...

(The Conversation) — A 9-year-old boy lies on the floor of a working-class rowhouse in Belfast, Northern Ireland, wondrously watching American Westerns on TV. Outside, though, the world’s gone mad.

In 1984, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was the target of an assassination attempt at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. A bomb placed by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...

NORTHERN IRELAND was created in 1921. Its six counties remained in the United Kingdom when the rest of Ireland became independent. For decades its Protestant majority dominated Northern Ireland’s ...