Pearse McKenna was born in August 1945 in the Falls Road area of Belfast, attending St Finian’s Primary School and then St Patrick’s, Bearnageeha on the Antrim Road, and playing Gaelic football and ...

Anthony Devlin/Getty Images Their previous encounter wasn’t much better: After a brief press conference, Brown wasn’t invited to Camp David, and the traditional side-by-side photo op in front of the ...

Kneecap are known for their unapologetic brand of anti-colonial hip-hop. The Irish trio sat down with SBS News ahead of their Australian tour to talk all things Gaeilge.

Lighter and easier to transport covertly than 7.62mm rifles like the British Army’s L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle, the AR-18/180 ...

In 1976 he took part in a walk-out at the Peter Pan Bakery (formerly Barney Hughes’s), protesting against the Provisional IRA killing of ... the removal of loyalist flags and emblems from ...

The PLO and the Provisional IRA developed a close relationship with exchanges of arms, intelligence and training. Within twenty years of the founding of the state of Israel, the dynamic had flipped.

David Roy speaks to US journalist Ali Watkins about her book The Next One is For You, which reveals how IRA weapons made their way from suburban Philadelphia to the north at the height of the Troubles ...

The UK government has not ruled out an inquiry into killings by the Provisional IRA’s internal security unit (ISU), the solicitor representing the family of one of the victims has said.

An arsenal of weaponry found in a south Armagh bunker was probably imported on behalf of the Provisional IRA decades ago, the High Court heard today. Lawyers for a father and son accused of having ...

Four Provisional IRA members – Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 – were shot dead by the soldiers minutes after they had carried out a ...

Senior Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has defended his attendance at the funeral of former Provisional IRA member Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, saying “people have the right to remember their dead”.

Mr Morley was murdered by the Provisional IRA in Newry in 1990 in what has been described as a “punishment shooting gone wrong”. Ombudsman Marie Anderson has undertaken two investigations ...