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 ...

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 ...

LONDON — An Irish nationalist made history Saturday by becoming Northern Ireland's first minister as the government returned to work after a two-year boycott by unionists. Sinn Fein Vice ...

It stems from the fact that Ireland remains part of the European Union but Northern Ireland no longer is — and yet the two parts of the island are bound by trade and a 25-year-old peace treaty ...

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 ...

The Troubles is a euphemism for the 30-year-long violent conflict that took thousands of lives in Northern Ireland. In this image, a silent crowd lines the road to the cemetery in Derry where the ...