Ireland News News Ireland » Religion: Ireland Tells State-Run Schools: Stop Steering Pupils to Religion Class
LONDON — Ireland’s state-run secondary schools can no longer assume that their students will receive religious instruction, the government has said, directing the schools to offer alternative classes ...
News Ireland » Religion: Poll finds revival of interest in religion in Northern Ireland among young people
A new poll commissioned by the Iona Institute has found a marked revival of interest in religion among young people in Northern Ireland.
News Ireland » Religion: Belief and hope in the pub of one of Ireland’s last faith healers
The 77-year-old former monk has even performed an exorcism. Joe Gallagher is one of Ireland’s last traditional faith healers, whose pub is visited by believers from across the country hoping for a ...
News Ireland » Religion: Religion may be rising among young people in Northern Ireland, says new poll
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Is religion growing among young people in Northern Ireland? A new survey says 18-24-year-olds are more likely to have a “very positive” attitude towards religion than any ...
News Ireland » Religion: In Northern Ireland, a long-awaited gurdwara opens with a wedding
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (RNS) — Derry’s growing population of Sikhs have been meeting in living rooms and kitchens since a fire destroyed one of only two gurdwaras in the country. LONDONDERRY, ...
News Ireland » Religion: School religious discrimination may still be happening despite law
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance found that religious discrimination in school admissions might still be happening in practice ...
News Ireland » Religion: POPULAR RELIGION IN GAELIC IRELAND, 1445–1645 (Ph.D. thesis, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2002)
Irish Economic and Social History, the journal of The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, has published annually since 1974 and has given a marked impetus to professional publication in ...
News Ireland » Religion: Rival religions unite in a new N. Ireland gov't
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Bitter enemies from Northern Ireland's bloody past joined forces Tuesday atop a new Northern Ireland government, a once-unimaginable achievement that both sides pledged ...
News Ireland » Religion: British ex-soldier acquitted of murder in 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre
It was one of the deadliest incidents of the period known as “The Troubles," the conflict between mainly Catholic supporters of a united Ireland and predominantly Protestant forces who wanted Northern ...
News Ireland » Religion: No room for pro-Israeli views in the arts, says TV writer
People in the arts community who have sympathy with Israel are treated "basically like a Nazi", according to the writer of a new TV drama. David Ireland said that the situation in Israel and Gaza is ...