Comedian George Jones is uncharacteristically solemn as he remembers how Army explosives experts told him the death toll in the Abercorn bombing could have run into double figures. George was ...

It was an iconic photograph which gave the people of ­Northern Ireland a glimmer of hope during their darkest days. Just moments after an IRA bomb ripped through the packed Abercorn restaurant in ...

For twelve long years Northern Ireland has had the same Governor, vastly rich and mightily aristocratic Sir James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and Knight of the Garter. When he moved ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins has urged the public to reflect on the realities of conflict as he recalled the bombing of the Abercorn restaurant in Belfast in which young people enjoying coffee ...

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins said the devastation caused by the no-warning Abercorn bombing in 1972 "will not be forgotten". In a statement released yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of the ...

THE Duchess of Abercorn, who has died aged 72, was not your average aristocrat; born through circumstance in the United States, she was very English, loved spending time in Scotland but spent most of ...

Three buoys have been removed from a Belfast city centre square to make way for a new Blitz memorial. The buoys sat at the centre of Cathedral Gardens, known locally as Buoys Park, beside St Anne’s ...

A DUCHESS who organised poetry competitions in primary schools in Northern Ireland during the Troubles is among 243 people who have been added to the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National ...

Belfast, 28 February 1923 - Northern Ireland has been bustling with activity over the last few days due to the recent political ceremonies that have taken place there. Following an impressive ...