Births, marriages and deaths registrations to remain in English and Irish only, with Ulster Scots excluded

‘No plans’ to include Ulster Scots registrations ...
Belfast Live on MSN

St Patrick's visit to the White House about putting spotlight on NI says Communities Minister

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons was speaking to Belfast Live ahead of travelling to the United States, where he is expected ...

Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee ...

Will Americans want to visit a Richard Nixon interpretive centre just outside Naas?

A tourist trail that focuses on historical connections between Ireland and America – and which treats, say, Andrew Jackson as ...
Belfast News Letter on MSN

Tartan Talk: Results from the Leinster Solo Piping and Drumming Championships

RSPBA NI Branch pipers and drummers started the season earlier than usual with a trip to the Leinster Solos.
Belfast News Letter on MSN

Great American novelist John Steinbeck was fascinated by his Ulster roots

​​John Steinbeck is best known for his novella ‘Of Mice and Men’, and his novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ that won him a Pulitzer ...
Belfast Live on MSN

Bilingual signage akin to the 'marking of kerbs' says Arlene Foster

Baroness Foster made the comments while giving evidence to Stormont's Assembly and Executive Review Committee on Tuesday ...
Opinion

WAGES of SPIN: You'll be shocked to learn how much of your money the Government spends just to tell you how good a job they're doing – and which minister spends the most

Details of the scale of massive payout on spin are set to spark public ire as the Government faces two tricky by-elections this year in Dublin Central and Galway West.

Gethan Dick wins Kate O’Brien Award

Gethan Dick has won the 2026 Kate O’Brien Award for her powerful, original and deeply moving debut novel Water in the Desert ...
Opinion

A message to unionism from one of its giants: get ready for Irish unity

Alex Kane speaks to John Taylor, last surviving minister of the old Stormont government, about civil rights, John Hume, Ian Paisley, and the mistakes unionism keeps making ...

Word of the week: When did ‘Scots-Irish’ become a synonym for ‘white’?

“Scots-Irish,” a popular label among American conservatives today, has long been a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas about what makes someone a “real American.” ...