In 1984, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was the target of an assassination attempt at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. A bomb placed by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely ended “The Troubles,” Northern Ireland’s civil strife between Protestants who want to stay in the U.K. and Catholics who see themselves as more Irish and largely ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Peter Olphert was 14 when Irish Republican Army gunmen killed his father. Forty years later, he says it’s time to set aside the past. Mark Thompson lost his brother to ...

It's now been over 27 years since the landmark Good Friday Agreement was penned, putting a stop to the three-decade conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. April 10 marks this milestone ...

Ruth Duffy received PhD funding from the Department for the Economy. Her book, Healthcare and the Troubles: The Conflict Experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service 1968-1998, will be published ...