Belfast, Northern Ireland’s capital city, is perhaps best known for the sectarian strife that took place during the era of ...
"Here's where it gets tricky: The British, mostly Protestant soldiers are sent to protect the Irish Catholics from the Irish Protestants. I remember the British soldiers coming into Belfast ...
The 1919 Dockers and Engineers strike in Belfast. For a time the 1919 strike looked like it had won Protestant workers away from their bosses, but these hopes were pinned on shaky ground and the ...
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, ...
Belfast’s overtly unionist Northern Whig ... the Irish War of Independence and the chaos of partition and civil war. Protestant Orangemen in the new state of Northern Ireland found themselves ...
Belfast does, however ... It reminds us of a history when Catholic, Protestant and protestors were united in a common cause against slavery. After the abolition of slavery, Douglass did not ...
Hugh Smyth, who has died aged 75, was a former Progressive Unionist Party leader and a one-time lord mayor of Belfast. Titles aside, he was perhaps better known in his native Shankill area as a ...
Belfast “continues to thrive culturally ... and nationalist Catholic neighbourhoods from loyalist and unionist Protestant areas. “It’s a deeply moving tribute to both sides.” ...
Belfast, April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Twenty years ago, the landmark Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of violence (known as the Troubles) between British Protestant unionists and ...
Hillsbourgh Protestant Boys Flute, South Belfast Protestant Boys, Lisburn Fusiliers Flute Band, Dumurry Protestant Boys Flute Band, Yin Yin Yin Flute Band, Rathcool Protestant Boys Flute Band ...
Hailing from the Shankill in west Belfast, the 30-year-old also talks about the red, white and blue of the Union flag in his music. Although he is a "proud Protestant", Young Spencer shared the ...