Three British soldiers will be called for the first time to give evidence in person to an inquiry into the deaths of 10 people 47 years ago in west Belfast into what is known as the Ballymurphy massacre.
The Ancient Order of the Hibernians and a professional law association has spoken out against the arrest of Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey who made the documentary “No Stone Unturned”.
The first Veterans Day, usually called Armistice or Remembrance Day in Ireland, was marked in 1919 a year to the day after the guns fell silent across the Western Front.
Carmel Quinn, a sister of John Laverty, one of the 11 victims of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre, will commence a five-state American tour as the inquest into the murders opens in Belfast.
The father of IRA bomber Thomas Begley has said he would have chained his son to the bed if he had known he was planning to carry out the 1993 attack on Belfast’s Shankill Road.
The father of Thomas Begley has said he would have chained his son to the bed if he had known he was planning to carry out the 1993 attack on Belfast’s Shankill Road.
A dark comedy novel about life in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, “Milkman” by Anna Burns, has won the internationally coveted Man Booker literary prize.
Reliving the past to re-imagine a future - a living historical resource now residing at Queen’s University, Belfast delivers tragic tales from legendary prisons like the H-Block, at The Maze.
