By the early 20th century, the British empire was the largest global empire in history, one on which the sun quite literally never set, with Ireland as its oldest colony. Britain’s great ...

Ireland—also called Éire—is the second largest island of the British Isles, and is divided into the UK-affiliated Northern Ireland and the independent Irish state, the Republic of Ireland.

In a United Kingdom where the monarch plays the symbolic role of unifying figure, the new king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland arguably has a… Skip to main content France 24 ...

For nine long years from 1593 Ireland was ravaged by one of the largest and most ... Writing of a “pre-modern world that had met the threat of the British empire with great defiance”, however ...

The first agreement with the EU, called the Northern Ireland Protocol, came into force on 1 January 2021. That introduced new checks on goods from Great Britain, at Northern Ireland's ports.

The UK government will also introduce two pieces of legislation, to guarantee Northern Irish goods can be sold in Great Britain in all circumstances, and to confirm Northern Ireland's place in the UK.