Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland, a long-awaited gurdwara opens with a wedding
By Trisha Mukherjee — April 12, 2024
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (RNS) — Derry’s growing population of Sikhs have been meeting in living rooms and kitchens since a fire destroyed one of only two gurdwaras in the country.
Each generation in Northern Ireland has reflected on the ‘troubles’ in its own way – right up to ‘Derry Girls’
By Joseph Patrick Kelly — April 5, 2023
(The Conversation) — Twenty-five years after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is still resisting the culture of violence.
Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux
By Peter Smith — April 4, 2023
(AP) — The peace that came with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago has periodically threatened as Catholic and Protestants remain segregated in many ways.
Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne at a time of deep religious divisions and worked to bring tolerance
By Joanne M. Pierce — September 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — Queen Elizabeth II encouraged tolerance in a multifaith United Kingdom. To appreciate the significance of her efforts, it is important to understand the country’s complicated religious history.
Political frustration in Northern Ireland has heightened tension around ‘marching season’
By Ger FitzGerald — July 9, 2021
(The Conversation) — Northern Ireland’s Orange Order will take to the streets on July 12 to commemorate a Protestant military victory. A scholar explains why this year the risk of unrest is heightened.
As Brexit stirs tensions, Northern Irish clergy reprise peacekeeping roles
By Christine Luby — April 26, 2021
(RNS) — As Northern Ireland marks 100 years since its partition, faith leaders emerge from the shadows of the country’s peace walls to stop the resurgence of sectarian violence.
Two cakes, two courts, two countries: Same result
By Catherine Pepinster — October 11, 2018
LONDON (RNS) — This week it was the British Supreme Court’s turn to decide a case in which a bakery refused to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage.
Security is not everything
By Tim Breene — January 30, 2017
(RNS) You have to go back to the 1970s, to the era when I was still in Belfast, to come up with a single case of an American citizen who was killed in a terrorist attack perpetrated by someone who came to the country as a refugee.
Survivors of Magdalene laundries still waiting for an apology
By Paige Brettingen — May 1, 2013
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (RNS) Teresa Bell was one of thousands of young girls who were sent to the Magdalene workhouses run by Roman Catholic nuns when she got pregnant at age 16. She worked long hours washing clothes with no pay and little rest; after giving birth, her daughter was put in an orphanage.
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