Belfast, Northern Ireland’s capital city, is perhaps best known for the sectarian strife that took place during the era of ...

Sectarianism is something that has existed to a greater or lesser extent in Ireland since the plantations and must be overcome if socialism can be introduced in the North. Like racism in South Africa, ...

Paramilitaries, drugs and identity are just some of the topics that rapper Young Spencer explores in his music. Hailing from the Shankill in west Belfast, the 30-year-old also talks about the red, ...

The groups said they “stand united against vandalism, fly-tipping and any actions that undermine our celebrations” ...

Although no slave ship was ever launched from Belfast, the story of the city’s involvement - like the rest of the island - was more complicated. Many people started to get very wealthy on the ...

More than 30 years on from the IRA’s ceasefire and more than 25 years after the Belfast Agreement was signed, the Catholic-Protestant divide in Northern Ireland still looms large. Teaching ...

Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland’s Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met ...