Northern Ireland had tremendous economic, political, and geographic advantages — but ending the Troubles still proved extremely difficult. By Amanda Taub For decades, bombs and gunfire battered ...

Rioting in Northern Ireland continued on Friday night, with demonstrators using gas bombs against the police and setting a car on fire in the capital of Belfast. The night of violence marked the ...

Northern Ireland Offers Hope for Conflict Resolution After nearly 40 years, British troops ended their mission in Northern Ireland last week. Commentator Kevin Cullen reflects on the end of an era.

Photographers in Northern Ireland during the conflict, otherwise known as The Troubles, captured in an image the young children at the heart of the reason why violence had to end.

In Northern Ireland, the preexisting tribal conflict, which aligns fortuitously with the dividing line between the winners and the losers of the new economy, has acted as an accelerant to violence.

Voices The English are blindly driving Northern Ireland to conflict – the fear is that they are too stupid to care. A return to violence is not a worst-case scenario but an inevitability if a ...

British soldiers shot and killed 13 people and wounded others during a 1972 civil rights protest. The shootings exacerbated the conflict in Northern Ireland, which left thousands dead over decades.

Twenty-five years ago, a remarkable peace was achieved. The Good Friday Agreement ended the decades of violence in Northern Ireland, resetting relationships in Northern Ireland, on the island of ...

Through tourism, Northern Ireland has taken the opportunity to reinvent itself—and work through its contentious past. Conflict tourism Some tourists began to arrive in Northern Ireland even ...

Prosecutors say 15 former British soldiers won’t face charges for perjury at an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long Northern Ireland conflict.

Prosecutors say 15 former British soldiers won’t face charges for perjury at an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long Northern Ireland conflict.