Belfast, written, invented, and directed by Kenneth Branagh, is the story of a white, Protestant family in Belfast in 1969—In Northern Ireland—at a time of mass, Catholic civil rights demonstrations ...

St. Patrick’s Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Credit: Crux/Inés San Martín.) Listen BELFAST – During the violence that marred Northern Ireland for over three decades until a peace agreement was ...

In this photo dated June 10 2013 a massive wall and fence separates the Protestant Cluan Place from the Catholic Short Strand area. When President Obama comes to Belfast, he’s expected to praise a ...

Last month, Catholics voted to reduce the flying of the flag to just 18 official days a year Move ended a century when the British national symbol favored by Protestants flew year-round Conflict ...

They went to different schools, played different sports, had different flags, and sang different songs. She said she was oblivious to the complexities of Northern Irish politics, but knew only one ...

Protests began Dec. 3 when the City Council voted to stop flying the British flag More than 100 police officers injured and 100 rioters arrested since riots began No civilian casualty figures have ...

BELFAST, Sept. 13 -- For three nights Protestant rioters trashed David Hamilton's neighborhood in east Belfast, tossing firebombs and rocks, hijacking and burning cars and ripping down streetlights in ...

“Belfast,” a memoir of Kenneth Branagh’s early Protestant childhood in the Troubles-torn Northern Irish city, gives us a child’s-eye view of Catholicism. “Paddy Cavanaugh told me as long as Catholics ...

DUBLIN (AP) — At least 10 police officers have been injured in nighttime Belfast riots after the British territory’s main Protestant brotherhood was blocked from marching past a Catholic district, an ...