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The project aims to showcase influential black individuals throughout history.
The Troubles were a long-running insurgency waged in Northern Ireland from the 1960s through the 1990s. Here’s what to know.
The Troubles tore Northern Ireland apart for decades. The strife lasted, some say, from 1968 to 1998. But the hatred and suspicion linger in many homes from Belfast to Boston and beyond.
Derry, Northern Ireland, is not only the location of Netflix's "Derry Girls" but also the location of Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the Troubles.
Unrest has been a major player in Ireland’s history well before the Troubles. Evidence of the 1916 Easter uprising remains in the bullet holes at Dublin’s post office.
An oral history with pictures, “Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland” (airing on PBS, Monday through Wednesday) is a five-part journey through the three-decade political-sectarian conflict ...
The conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century is known as the Troubles. Over 3,600 people were killed and thousands more injured. Paramilitary groups were active on both sides of ...
The man is working to compile an oral history of the Troubles for Boston College's Belfast Project. Dolours, a former Provisional Irish Republican Army militant, is visibly nervous.
Patrick Radden Keefe's book Say Nothing, a history of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, is heavy in a few ways.On top of its subject matter, it's more than 500 pages long — though a quarter of ...
Proponents justify the measure as an effort to “promote reconciliation” and relieve the reconstituted Police Service of Northern Ireland from having to investigate Troubles-related offenses.