Northern Irish & Irish History

Here you will find out about Armagh’s history, its proud sporting heritage, its castles...

This town in County Tyrone was a centre of the linen industry in the county, with...

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of...

Belfast 1972. It’s the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ and...

In 1969, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a...

Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and Sinn Féin during the height...

In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern...

Linen had been made in Ireland since ancient times but mass production didn’t take off...

This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well...

At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their trenches and walked...

If you want to know who the linen lappers of Edenderry were, see the inside front...

These villages are now quiet places with little or no industry. In the early twentieth...