Ernest Blythe was born in 1889 into a unionist farming family with an 80-acre farm close to Magheragall, near Lisburn.

Martin McCauley appeared before Craigavon Magistrates' Court after being extradited from the Republic of Ireland.

The Donegal-born former Stormont minister reflects on her political career and the transformation of Northern Ireland society ...

Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving ...

The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, ...

was brought up in a republican household in Keady in South Armagh and his father Eddie Dynes died “while on active service for the North Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA” when his car ...

There are two things that can be said about the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The first thing is that it has worked out ...

In 1976 the IRA gunned down ten Protestants at Kingsmills in south Armagh which was also executed from the Republic of Ireland. After almost a decade of unrelenting pressure for answers ...

Despite a disastrous drop in support, Mary Lou McDonald will survive as Sinn Féin leader thanks to a lack of viable replacements, party TDs have told the Irish Daily Mail. The lack of viable ...

With striking red curls beneath a barrister’s wig, the commanding voice of Armagh-born Caroline Carberry KC rings out ... Caroline recalls – there was an IRA bombing campaign in the City in the ...

More resources are required to protect the public from “serious criminal activity” in south Armagh, it has been warned. The call comes after police vehicles were rammed in two separate ...