BELFAST, Northern Ireland — When Carla Hart sends the children out the door of their row house on Cluan Place in a working-class part of East Belfast, she never knows what will fall from the skies.

Throughout Northern Ireland's dark decades of war, Ian Paisley was the loudest and most charismatic voice on the battlefield, rallying Protestants in the hundreds of thousands against compromise with ...

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 ...

National Archives director Orlaith McBride said the drop in the non-Catholic population was "significant" One of the most significant demographic shifts in the early years of the Irish Free State was ...

As Sinn Féin looked to the Ireland of the future by calling for a United Ireland in several major US publications, Tanáiste Leo Varadkar was once again remained rooted in the past with an embarrassing ...

Northern Ireland’s Twelfth of July parades will be watched with unusual care from London this year. Celebrating the central national holiday of Northern Ireland’s Protestants, the parades—known for ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were ...

David Ervine, a former paramilitary who gave up violence to become one of Northern Ireland's leading Protestant politicians, has died in hospital after a heart attack. Mr Ervine, 53, headed the ...