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 ...

When Kenneth Branagh, the director best known for a slew of 1990s Shakespeare adaptations, delivers a black-and-white film set in 1960s Northern Ireland, one could be forgiven if they expect a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — 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.

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” was not my favorite movie of 2021 (not that anyone was asking) but it is the film that gave me the most hope, and at a time when hope is worth more than rubies, or even an Oscar campaign.

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 ...