“The Oul’ McMahons’ Spade”, a 1973 epic by Matt Duggan, also features in McKeagney’s book, although its last verse implies ...

Since 2022, in the ARINS/Irish Times surveys there has been a marked increase in the proportion of Northern Catholics who ...

Northern Ireland was engulfed in a civil conflict known as The Troubles. The country—only a small section of the island of ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

Support for a united Ireland has increased by seven percentage points in just two years, a new survey shows. The growth in ...

There are elements of the Protestant population which find ... It was quite astonishing how different life was in the Republic of Ireland during this time. These were the darkest days, though ...

6 July 1923 - The Protestant minority in the Irish Free State ask for no special privileges, but seeks only to receive the treatment they had been promised by the Government, a Church of Ireland ...

Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time in what has been described as a “hugely significant and historic moment”. How likely is a united Ireland and when could ...

The head of Protestants Against Gaelic ... against the use of Irish in the Republic with the upcoming launch of its new website, and in Northern Ireland where a revival of the language is gaining ...

From its beginnings in Ireland in 1795, the Orange Order centred its beliefs on the supremacy of the Protestant faith and the righteousness of the British Crown. The fraternal society spread ...

Saint Patrick is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. There was initially one single Church. Protestantism developed in the 16th century when people began to split from the Catholic Church.