The prospect of Irish Defence Forces making incursions into Northern Ireland was mooted after violence erupted there in 1969 ...
Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...
The dire economic position the North faced in the mid-1970s was partly blamed by the absence of a regional government with all decisions affecting Northern Ireland made in Westminster.
The Ulster Workers Council strike in 1974, which brought down the power-sharing Executive led by Brian Faulkner, was a testing time for the people of Northern Ireland, for the Government at ...
From the viewpoint of a Political Correspondent, Northern Ireland lacked any tradition of reasonably fair political reporting. Most of the newspapers tended to be highly partisan, and although the ...
The 69-year-old man is due to appear before Craigavon Magistrates' Court on Wednesday A 69-year-old man has been extradited from Denmark to Northern Ireland over an alleged indecent assault in the ...
It hasn’t necessarily followed that the generally unionist sympathies of Conservative governments have seen an opposite, or ...
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, surrounded by press and supporters, on a tour of Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 2, 1970. Photo: Wesley/Keystone/Getty Images Later that month over lunch ...
He added: “A Northern Ireland that is prosperous is the key to securing the Union for the future, and those who are a minority within unionism, but who live in the days of the 1970s when ...