"Supporting couples who are united in love across traditional Christian divisions and promoting acceptance of these relationships within Northern Ireland society"

NIMMA has produced a range of publications which are available either to download or through our office. These provide advice on topics related to mixed marriage and also reflect research and writings on experience of mixed marrriage and wider society.

News Links

• Mix''n'Match: Crossing the cultural divide for love

Family fall-outs, prejudice ... and hope. In the most revealing real-life accounts you'll ever read, the children of couples who fell in love across the divide tell their stories. Belfast Telegraph review of Both Sides Now, 25 April 2015

• Marriage: when religion comes into the mix

In a collection of stories that are insightful, compelling and at times, emotional, 11 people born in Ulster have opened their hearts and revealed what it is like to live in families where their parents are from different religious backgrounds. Newsletter review of Both Sides Now. 14 April 2015.

• Northern Ireland quietly opens heart to mixed relationships future

Jemimah Steinfeld writes on changing times for Northern Ireland.

• Let's help couples say 'I do' to a shared future

The toleration and compromise shown by couples in mixed marriages is a blueprint for Northern Ireland writes NIMMA Chair in the Belfast Telegraph, July 2013

• After Enniskillen, I was bitter towards Catholics... now I’m married to one

Julie O'Donnell, who as a teenager survived the Enniskillen Poppy Day bombing, reveals how her attitudes changed in a Belfast Telegraph article, November 2012.

• IRA bombing survivor opens his heart on mixed marriage

Irish News Article on two couples featured in "MIxed Emotions" , March 2012

• My family and community would have nothing to do with me... because I married a Catholic
  

  Ruth's story, as featured in NIMMA publication "Mixed Emotions" is featured in Belfast Telegraph article. Read about the reaction of her family to her marriage to Pat in 1943. Published March 2012.

• Family in the Eye of the Storm

Article on Barbara Collins radio programme on the legacy of the Catholic ruling 'ne temere' which insisted that any children of a mixed marriage were brought up as Catholics. November 2010.

• How a mother's children were taken away forever

The McCann Case was one of the key reasons for the defeat of the Third Home Rule Bill at Parliament. Reporter Barbara Collins looks at the effect the Ne Temere ruling had on one family 100 years ago. Published November 2010.

• Call to tackle Northern Ireland segregation with mixed housing estates

  Independent Commission Report on the Future for Housing in Northern Ireland (May 2010) calls for a 10-year strategy to end the religious ghettoisation of housing that was perpetuated by the Troubles.

• More mixed couples tying the knot

  An article by Niall Glynn on the a rise in the number of mixed marriages between Catholics and Protestants, estimated at about one in 10 of all marriages in Northern Ireland. November 2009.

• Mixed Messages of Cultural Identity

A report on Roderick Buchanan’s exhibition in Belfast’s Ormeau Baths Gallery, a personal exploration of identity and a family history of mixed marriages. January 2009.

• Loving Dangerously 
  

Religious bigotry made mixed marriages virtually a no-go area in Northern Ireland. But there are signs that things are beginning to change. The Guardian February 2002

• Mixed Couples defy decades of N. Irish discord 
  

Article in Christian Science Monitor on couples experiences of mixed marriages, December 2001

• Research into mixed marriages

  A press release from the University of Ulster on research into mixed marriages, November 2001.

• Couples defy old dogmas to marry

  An article by Henry McDonald, Ireland editor, appeared in the Observer, Sunday November 25, 2001.