The Latest Breaking News from IRA

A quarter of a century after the end of the Troubles, paramilitary groups still recruit, march, intimidate and, on occasion, kill

Celebrations are being planned to mark 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement but, with many romanticising the Troubles, the past can seem very present

The gripping inside story of the 1984 Brighton bombing, its victims, and its unintended consequences

Families who lost loved ones during three decades of bloodshed known as the Troubles, fear a proposed amnesty for those involved in the conflict will end their hopes for justice.

Politicians and experts reflect on the deal credited with ending 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

The peer was one of the closest allies of UUP leader David Trimble in 1998.

Pat Sheehan said republican inmates in the Maze did not want to be pawns in the Good Friday Agreement talks.

Between 1820 and 1920, four million people emigrated from Ireland to the US. Many were fleeing hunger and destitution and so brought with them an “exile” nationalism – a conviction that they were forced to leave by British misgovernment and exploitation of Ireland. Little wonder, then, that the Irish diaspora…

In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike.