The Latest Breaking News from Northern Ireland

Peace comes dropping slow, wrote the poet William Butler Yeats. And even when peace does come, it must be nurtured and vigilantly protected like a vulnerable sapling.

After three decades of conflict that left 3,500 people dead, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement reached by the political protagonists in Northern Ireland found common ground for power-sharing between unionists, who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and republicans, who call for a united and independent…

Northern Ireland is at peace, but still divided

President Biden's trip marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is part diplomacy and part homecoming.