The party’s code-switching in the US recently plays to negative stereotypes of unionism as a shallow identity. But could it ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

With nationalism ascendant and Catholics outnumbering Protestants, green was widely embraced, particularly since it had been ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

In the build up to his bout at Croke Park in July 1972, 'the Greatest' invited Bernadette Devlin, then an outspoken MP, for ...

One-party rule by Ulster unionists, Watkins writes, left Catholics with “few jobs, poor housing and threadbare resources.” In ...

‘LONDON, March 17 [what would be 1739 in the modern calendar]. This being St. Patrick's Day, the Tutelar Saint of Ireland, ...

Irish nationalist groups active in the U.S. – the Fenians, Clan na Gael and, later, Irish Northern Aid – participated in these American St. Patrick’s Day parades, proudly wearing green to demonstrate ...

St. Patrick’s Day has been safely consigned to the store room for another year. According to the legend and well-known song, he was “a ...

Born of Ulster Protestant stock in April, 1889, in Magheragall, near Lisburn – his father, a farmer, was Church of Ireland, and his mother, Presbyterian before marriage – he was sent in 1905 ...

The legacy of St Patrick, who brought Christianity to Ireland, “should not solely be about green beer, leprechauns or the ...