Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – ...

Protestants made up 10% of the population of the Irish Free State when it gained independence in 1922. Fast forward to the 2011 census and the figure was a little under half that at 4.27%.

The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

The first round of the 2021 Northern Irish census results were released on Sept. 22, and it produced a shocker: Catholics now outnumber Protestants for the first time since the Northern Irish state ...

INSKEEP: And they're moving after last night's bonfires. People built up stacks of fuel, in some cases as tall as a 14-story building, and lit them up. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: It's all part of marching ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Shouting “No surrender!” and singing anti-Catholic songs, Protestant hardliners across Northern Ireland burned midnight bonfires topped with Irish flags and prepared to ...

When Carla Hart sends the children out the door of their row house on Cluan Place in a working-class part of East Belfast, she never knows what will fall from the skies. And it’s not just the weather ...

Irish Protestants and Catholics should see the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day as an opportunity to build peace and reconciliation, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Ireland said at an interreligious ...

The Irish presence in Rhode Island dates from the late 1630s. Most early Irish Rhode Islanders were Protestants — mainly Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians or Anglicans —and those few with Catholic ...

BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for the ...

Republicans in rural parts of Northern Ireland tried to create "no-go" areas for Protestants, according to new files released ...

The annual march celebrating loyalists' tie to the United Kingdom comes as Brexit has created a new border in the Irish Sea and the U.K.'s future is tenuous. INSKEEP: And they're moving after last ...