Frederick Douglass visited Ireland in 1845 to drum up support for abolition. That launched generations of solidarity between Black civil rights and Irish republican activists. Jackie Lay/NPR hide caption
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A large sign calling for a cease-fire in Gaza hangs from a building in Dublin on Feb. 12. Paulo Nunes dos Santos for NPR hide caption
Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill walks down steps at Stormont Parliament Buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Saturday. O'Neill made history by becoming the first Irish nationalist leader of Northern Ireland. Peter Morrison/AP hide caption
Paul Crawford holds a photograph of his mother and father at his home in Glenavy. His father John Crawford was shot dead in 1974 in front of the West Belfast furniture factory he ran. Charles McQuillan for NPR hide caption
Britain bans prosecution of past Catholic and Protestant killings in Northern Ireland
The Belfast to Dublin motorway crosses the border line between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as viewed from the northern side of the border. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images hide caption
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands after a news conference at Windsor Guildhall, Windsor, England, Monday. The U.K. and the European Union ended years of wrangling, sealing a deal to resolve a dispute over Northern Ireland. Dan Kitwood/AP hide caption
Why Brexit's back in the news: Britain and the EU struck a Northern Ireland trade deal
A truck arrives at Larne port in County Antrim, where a customs post has been established as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol, on November 29, 2021. Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Sinn Fein's Vice President Michelle O'Neill (center) celebrates with party colleagues after being elected in Mid Ulster at the Medow Bank election count center in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, on Friday. Peter Morrison/AP hide caption
Skirmishes erupt at the "peace wall" dividing Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday night. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images hide caption
The European Union quickly reversed a decision invoking an emergency provision of the Brexit deal that could have restricted exports of COVID-19 vaccines across the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Sean Gallup/AP hide caption
A police officer stands before damage caused by one of two pub bombings in 1974 in Birmingham, England. Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald (dressed in red and black) celebrates with party supporters Sunday after receiving poll results in Dublin. Peter Morrison/AP hide caption
The Titanic set out from Southampton, England, in 1912 — and infamously dragged more than 1,500 of its passengers and crew to their deaths not long afterward. Now the underwater wreckage of the historic vessel is getting some new protections. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald's party has agreed to a new power-sharing deal with the Democratic Unionist Party. McDonald (center) spoke about the agreement Friday, flanked by deputy leader Michelle O'Neill. Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel (from left), U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Commission's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, at the start of an EU summit on Thursday in Brussels. EU and British negotiators came to an agreement on the United Kingdom's departure from the EU known as Brexit. Thierry Monasse/Getty Images hide caption
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, seen during a visit to a hospital in southwest England on Monday, calls the backstop deal "inconsistent with the sovereignty of the U.K." Peter Nicholls/AP hide caption
Irish journalist Lyra McKee who was shot and killed during clashes between militant republicans and police in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. McKee family/AP hide caption
CCTV footage shows how three men clawed an ATM out of a wall and made off with a cash box in under five minutes. It is the eighth such incident in Northern Ireland since the start of the year. CCTV/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Families of victims of Bloody Sunday, in which 13 unarmed protesters were killed in 1972, marched before the prosecutor's announced charges against a former British paratrooper. Liam McBurney/AP hide caption
Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street on Monday to attend parliament. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption
British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives to meet with EU leaders on Wednesday in Brussels. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission's chief commissioner, Les Allamby, speaks to members of the media outside of the Supreme Court in London on Thursday. The court said it could not rule on the commissions' challenge to Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws, but that it would have declared them incompatible with human rights laws otherwise. Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Activist group Solidarity with Repeal holds a rally calling for abortion rights outside Belfast City Hall last week in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The rally follows Ireland's vote to repeal a constitutional ban on abortion. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images hide caption