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Back home in Belfast, there were plenty of American soldiers, and plenty of opportunities to meet them. “There were dancehalls and all the girls went, but my mother wouldn’t have allowed us,” she says. Henry Liddy in the newsagent’s and confectionery shop he ran with his wife Mairead Liddy in Belfast “Some of my friends would have driven out to [the base] where the Americans were, at Nutt’s Corner, and the result then was shiploads of them then going out to Ame...

HOME. Although I’ve lived off and on in Scotland for the best part of 40 years now, that word still makes me think of a council house in Coleraine in County Londonderry. Three bedrooms, two sisters, Radio 1, Spacehoppers and football on the green. An eternal 1970s of the mind. Like WB Yeats, “I am of Ireland.” But the northern bit. I am Northern Irish or so I consider myself even though I’m not sure what I mean by that particularly. In my head the term triggers a reel of fuzzy image...

BELFAST (AFP) - Northern Ireland came into being on May 3, 1921 as Ireland became independent from Britain and was split between pro-Ireland nationalists and pro-UK unionists, who hold the most power. Here is a timeline of its history.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Timeline: 100 years of Northern Ireland   Published On Timeline: 100 years of Northern Ireland BELFAST (AFP) - Northern Ireland came into being on May 3, 1921 as Ireland became independent from Britain and was split between pro-Ireland nationalists and pro-UK unionists, who hold the most power. ‘The Troubles’ begin  On August 12, 1969, "The Troubles" begin with sectarian fighting in Londonderry between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists. Two days later, British troops are dep...

A hunger strike in which 10 IRA prisoners died was a watershed in the Troubles, says Peter Taylor.

Irish FA Licensing Committee grants record number of club licences The Irish Football Association’s Licensing Committee has granted a record number of licences to clubs in Northern Ireland. The UEFA, Premiership, Promotion and Championship licences are valid for the 2021-22 season and were awarded following “an immense effort” during unprecedented times, according to Licensing Committee chairman Allen McKinstry. As part of the Irish FA’s ongoing implementation of club licensing policie...

In my movies, “Hillary’s America” and “Death of a Nation,” I portrayed Margaret Sanger, the founder and longtime leader of Planned Parenthood, as an out-and-out racist. My evidence for this was overwhelming: Sanger was never an advocate of birth control per se; she wanted birth control of the people she considered unwanted people in society, a group she termed “undesirables” and “human weeds.” Sanger’s goal was to create “a race of thoroughbreds,” a t...

Colonial powers carved up land between them, dividing age-old settlements, tribes and indigenous peoples. A map of Africa can tell us that. Other maps show boundaries, the result of partitions by Britain that remain a cause of violent conflict in the Middle East, Asia — and the United Kingdom. This year, 3 May marks the centenary of the creation of Northern Ireland, made up of six of Ulster’s nine counties (widely but wrongly referred to as “The Province”). It is not a time for celebrat...

Sadlers Peaky Blinder Irish Cup round-up Seven clubs booked a last 16 place as the Sadlers Peaky Blinder Irish Cup kicked off on Tuesday evening. There were no upsets, but there also wasnt the feared avalanche of goals or one-sided affairs in games involving those non-Premiership clubs kicking their first ball in anger in many months. Much interest was focused on the clash of Coleraine and Crusaders at The Showgrounds, a game that pitted third against sixth in the Premiership. It proved to be a...

BBC News By Nuala McCann image copyrightGetty Images/ Charles McQuillan image captionA firefighter pauses for a moment as she gets on with the battle to put out the blaze It began with puffs of white smoke, but by Friday teatime the people who call the foothills of the Mourne Mountains home began to feel nervous. As darkness fell, like thousands of others, Laura Devlin and her family stood at a bedroom window watching orange flames devour the night sky. "My son whos five said: Mummy, it looks l...