On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten, a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, boarded a small fishing boat on the coast of Ireland along with his daughter, son-in-law and ...

Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commander who led his underground paramilitary movement toward reconciliation with Britain, died Tuesday, his Sinn Fein party announced. He was 66. Turning ...

McGuinness was deputy first minister of the province at the time, a role he relinquished earlier this year. One of the most iconic images of the peace process in Northern Ireland was the handshake ...

In a meeting symbolizing the end of years of enmity between British rule and Northern Ireland republicans, Queen Elizabeth II shook hands Wednesday with a former Irish Republican Army commander.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II and a former Irish Republican Army commander offered each other the hand of peace Wednesday in a long-awaited encounter symbolizing Northern Ireland ...

LONDON (AP) – The Irish Republican Army-linked Sinn Fein party says one of its leaders, Martin McGuinness, will meet Queen Elizabeth II next week _ a once-unthinkable symbol of progress toward peace ...

Former US President Bill Clinton traveled to Derry, Northern Ireland, on Thursday to give an impassioned eulogy at the funeral of former Irish Republican Army (IRA) commander and Deputy First Minister ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland mounted a display of unity against rising violence from Irish Republican Army dissidents -- and vowed Tuesday to ...