Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – which comes from the word Seanchille, or “the old church”. The second ...

The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Irish Catholic militants attacked riot police Thursday in a polarized corner of Belfast as the most divisive day on Northern Ireland's calendar reached a typically ugly end ...

INSKEEP: And they're moving after last night's bonfires. People built up stacks of fuel, in some cases as tall as a 14-story building, and lit them up. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: It's all part of marching ...

With the UK making moves to legalize the practice, Protestant and Catholic leaders reiterate a pro-life defense for the vulnerable. When the government put its abortion ban up for a referendum vote ...

When Metairie's Bill and Winkie Bouldin began thinking about retirement -- Bill from Texaco and Winkie as a teacher -- in the early 1990s, they cast around trying to decide what to do in their golden ...

LONDON -- Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament -- and ...

Protestants were cruel interlopers opposed by the brave freedom fighters in the Irish Republican Army, who drove them out of the south during the war for independence and who are struggling to drive ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland leaders appealed for calm Thursday after Protestant militants attacked offices and a home connected to the most compromise-minded political party over its support for ...

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