IN an extraordinary historical reversal, British soldiers last week were deployed for the purpose of keeping Irishmen from each other’s throats. Some 6,500 strong, they were assigned their pacific ...

It still isn’t often that Catholics and Protestants in Ulster agree on politics. As the renewed political crisis in the region deepens, however, moderates are linking arms on three key issues. First ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — A day billed as a breakthrough for Northern Ireland peacemaking hit a diplomatic impasse Tuesday as Protestant leaders rejected the Irish Republican Army's ...

When Metairie's Bill and Winkie Bouldin began thinking about retirement -- Bill from Texaco and Winkie as a teacher -- in the early 1990s, they cast around trying to decide what to do in their golden ...

TRAILING jets of bright orange flame, gasoline fire bombs arched across barricades that sealed off the dreary Catholic slum of Bogside from the rest of Londonderry. As the bombs exploded among groups ...

The evolution of Ian Paisley and the movement he led. “For God and Ulster” is a slogan synonymous with Protestant and unionist opposition to the demands of Irish nationalists and republicans. It was ...