THE GAA has become one of the most visible brands nationwide, enabling the Association to grow from strength to strength in ...

"Our job is to protect the fort and to be fair, it hasn't been attacked recently," Simon Walker, a corporal in the guard, ...

A map showing the population fall during the Great Famine highlights how Fermanagh was one of the worst affected areas in ...

The interactive version of the crossword that appears in Thursday’s Farming supplement. No cheating.

That's probably a result of the Ulster Plantation settlements of the 1600s—a time when Irish Catholics were being forced off the land by the English monarchy—and more frequent travel between ...

Irish" descent but research paid for by Democratic Union Party in the north of Ireland failed to find any link ...

What do we see? The new Ulster of the Plantation. It has a double interest. First, there is naturally the interest attaching to the Plantation itself. It was an extraordinary experiment.

Ulster Protestants were (and are) largely descended from Scottish and English settlers imported during the 17th-century “plantation” of Ulster, which, not coincidentally, was contemporaneous ...

His own ancestors would have been participants in a colonial project known as the “Plantation of Ulster” in the early 17th century that displaced the native Irish and replaced them with ...

The Crown confiscated the rich lands of the rebels and brought in a flood of Scotch and English settlers in the famous “plantation of Ulster” in 1608. The seaport of Derry was handed over to ...