I grew up in the town of Drogheda, 25 miles from the border, after my father moved our family there from Tipperary when he got a promotion as a schoolteacher. We were seven kids in all. This was the ...

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 ...

NORTHERN IRELAND was created in 1921. Its six counties remained in the United Kingdom when the rest of Ireland became independent. For decades its Protestant majority dominated Northern Ireland’s ...

Ms. McKay is an Irish journalist who writes extensively about the politics and culture of Northern Ireland. BELFAST, Northern Ireland — It was meant to be a year of celebration. But Northern Ireland, ...