Belfast calls them “black cab tours” and they’re one of the most sought-after tourist attractions in town, equal to the museum dedicated to Belfast’s shipping industry and construction of the Titanic.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Peter Olphert was 14 when Irish Republican Army gunmen killed his father. Forty years later, he says it's time to set aside the past. Mark Thompson lost his brother to ...

The “Troubles” that beset Northern Ireland for three decades have hardly been neglected by TV and movies over the years, so encountering the five-part “Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland” on PBS ...

In 1984, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was the target of an assassination attempt at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. A bomb placed by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — By now, these walls were meant to have fallen. Just as they did at the height of the Troubles — three blood-soaked decades of sectarian and political violence that shook ...

It's now been over 27 years since the landmark Good Friday Agreement was penned, putting a stop to the three-decade conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. April 10 marks this milestone ...

NORTHERN IRELAND was created in 1921. Its six counties remained in the United Kingdom when the rest of Ireland became independent. For decades its Protestant majority dominated Northern Ireland’s ...

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely ended “The Troubles,” Northern Ireland’s civil strife between Protestants who want to stay in the U.K. and Catholics who see themselves as more Irish and largely ...

In Northern Ireland recently, I was shocked by the number of people there who asked me, “Do you realize the U.S. is in the ...