to the north east lie Islay and Jura in Scotland (where George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-four), and you are, of course, standing in Northern Ireland. A particularly pleasant part of it.

Now, Brexit raises questions about whether this peace can stand by bringing those multidimensional, long-standing and difficult questions of identity in Northern Ireland to the fore: Catholic vs.

A newly 18-year-old Orla arrives at Derry’s city hall to register to vote in the referendum on the agreement, which would end decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. After striking ...

Northern Ireland had tremendous economic, political, and geographic advantages — but ending the Troubles still proved extremely difficult. By Amanda Taub For decades, bombs and gunfire battered ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Twenty-five years after the U.S. helped broker peace in Northern Ireland, President Joe Biden heads to Belfast on Tuesday to celebrate an accord that ended three ...

Playing next to a peace line that separates predominantly Catholic and predominantly Protestant communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in March. Such walls are reminders of an era of violence ...

The breakthrough deal on Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements heralds a reset in the often thorny relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union — and could be the first ...

Michelle O’Neill was never supposed to be here. When the Northern Ireland Assembly was established following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended 30 years of sectarian bloodshed known as ...