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.

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 ...

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland There are currently, in 2022, 231,597 refugees under UNHCR’s mandate in the United Kingdom, as well as 127,421 pending asylum seeker cases and 5483 ...

As part of Britain’s departure from the EU, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government agreed to effectively leave Northern Ireland within the EU’s single market for goods and customs union ...

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.

As originally negotiated under the Northern Ireland Protocol, the nation is treated as part of the EU Single Market and being outside Great Britain for customs purposes – which means a wide ...

In the popular mindset, 1916 is the moment when Ireland threw off the chains of imperialism and left the British Empire. But in reality, the Proclamation of 1916 had no legal effect.

The return to government came exactly two years after a DUP boycott over a dispute about trade restrictions for goods coming into Northern Ireland from Great Britain. Northern Ireland's 1.9 ...

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 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.