Or, at least, the Academy Award-nominated plot is largely straightforward. The setting — in the midst of a pivotal flare-up of violence during The Troubles — is anything but. The disconnect between ...

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a film about the Troubles that, when you dig into it, isn’t so much about the Troubles at all. A twinkly-eyed childhood memoir – and rigorously fashioned to be an Oscar ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Peter Olphert was 14 when Irish Republican Army gunmen killed his father. Forty years later, he says it's time to set aside the past. Mark Thompson lost his brother to ...

“Spanning four decades, ‘Say Nothing’ explores the tumultuous period in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother ...

British actor and director Kenneth Branagh has played English kings and German SS officers, detectives both French and Swedish, a Danish prince and even an American president. So it may have escaped ...

Ciarán MacAirt’s Paper Trail charity is important for a number of reasons, not just for unearthing British military intelligence files which throw light on who knew what during the Troubles. His ...

Henry Kelly’s long career brought him from reporting on the frontline of the Troubles in Northern Ireland to fame as a presenter of light entertainment shows Game for a Laugh and Going for Gold. The ...

An oral history with pictures, “Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland” (airing on PBS, Monday through Wednesday) is a five-part journey through the three-decade political-sectarian conflict familiarly ...

When Kerri ní Dochartaigh was 11, she recalls, someone lobbed a firebomb at her house, chasing her family into the street. On this and other occasions, her youth was upended by Northern Ireland’s ...

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 ...