The Irish Republican Army fails to protect Catholics from loyalist ... It is not religion that lies at the root of the Troubles. The conflict in Ireland is about national identity and territory ...

During the Troubles, Northern Ireland politics revolved ... modern Sinn Féin dates back to 1970 and a split in the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The Official IRA faded into the background while ...

The Troubles, as the war of supremacy between the Protestant Irish and the Catholic Irish in North Ireland was called, has ...

This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence ... which were active during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and beyond.

If you nodded off during history classes you may not remember the vast story of Ireland. Check out these Irish historical ...

Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...

An independent public inquiry into a 1998 bombing in Omagh in Northern Ireland in which 29 people were killed and 220 injured ...

Previously a number of British Army veterans ... the Troubles. The Act was opposed by victims’ groups in Northern Ireland and all the main political parties at Stormont. The Irish Government ...