Ireland/Northern Ireland

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — In May 2024, Billy Scampton from Londonderry and Shannon Leet from Ontario, Canada, walked to the […]

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Jesus, understandably, is the star of most Passion Plays. The story of Christ’s Passion, derived from […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – The St. Patrick’s Day Parade here this year featured the expected shamrocks, green hats, traditional Irish […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — One Friday morning two years ago, Harvey Mills took a train to Belfast from his quiet […]

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — On a late Sunday afternoon in January 1972, 27-year-old William McKinney slung a new movie camera […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — When Brexit first went into effect in 2020, Makkah Market’s Ramadan order came late. The owner, […]

RATHFRILAND, Northern Ireland —  It all started in 2017 with a trench. In that year, a power company was preparing […]

BELFAST – The Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum typically meets over lunch, but at a recent gathering, the secretary, Edwin Graham, […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest and prayer, there is barely a quorum of 10 […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On the eve of Saint Patrick’s Day this year, locals gathered to ring in the holiday […]

TEMPLEPATRICK, Northern Ireland — Growing up, I had always heard tales that our family’s ancestry was Scots-Irish, via the Greer surname […]

BELFAST — Inioluwa Olaosebikan, a 17-year-old immigrant from Nigeria, sits on the Belfast City Council where she advises the city […]

DUBLIN – For the last several decades, the Catholic Church of Ireland has been losing its followers at a rapid […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Yousif Alshewaili, a 24-year-old Muslim who fled his native Iraq (pictured above), was recently granted asylum status […]

DUBLIN — Nestled behind a South Asian restaurant, a hookah lounge and a tire repair shop is home to one […]

BLACKROCK, Ireland — On a cold, damp March afternoon, a bright orange door sat open, welcoming passers-by to the Methodist […]

DUBLIN – James Cadden, who runs a comedy show at Ha’penny Bridge Inn in Dublin, was an altar boy in […]

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Christine Cowley still remembers what it felt like to lose her first love. She was just […]

DUBLIN — Kneeling down on the ground, Palestinian journalist Samia Alatrash wrapped her arms around the lifeless body of her […]

DUBLIN — On an overcast January afternoon in Kildare, Ireland, Úna-Minh Kavanagh, a journalist, married Pádhraic O’Hanrahan, a math lecturer, […]

DUBLIN — A recent Youth Mass at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin started with a song that seemed to fit […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The walls that separate the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods of this Northern Irish city are officially […]

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (RNS) — On a cloudy fall day in 2021, about 100 people were praying in Derry’s only […]

DUBLIN (RNS) — The Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland was decorated with festive lights on the inside and outside as […]

SAUL, Northern Ireland — Divisions along religious lines were heavy on the mind of Georgina Magine as she joined about […]

DUBLIN (RNS) — At a Mass said in Latin on Sunday (March 10), Ireland’s traditional Catholics declared political victory, days […]