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Andersonstown, known colloquially as Andytown, is a suburb of west Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the foot of the Black Mountain and Divis Mountain. It contains a mixture of public and private housing and is largely a working-class area with a strong Irish nationalist and Irish Catholic tradition. The district is sometimes colloquially referred ...
The Belfast Media Group's Andersonstown News is a weekly published (Wednesdays) Belfast, Northern Ireland newspaper, which focuses on news and issues in west Belfast. The paper was founded in 1972. [1] Its stablemates, the North Belfast News and South Belfast News, are published weekly.
The Falls Road (from Irish túath na bhFál 'territory of the enclosures' [1]) is the main road through West Belfast, Northern Ireland, running from Divis Street in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. The name has been synonymous for at least a century and a half with the Catholic community in the city.
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There is often some confusion between the Shaw's Road Gaeltacht and the Gaeltacht Quarter in west Belfast, [6] which is a related, but newer and distinct project located in the centre of the Falls Road district. The Shaw's Road Gaeltacht is located closer to Andersonstown.
Joseph "Joe" Fenton (c. 1953 – 26 February 1989) was an estate agent from Belfast, Northern Ireland, killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) for acting as an informer for RUC Special Branch.
In West Belfast, a car bomb exploded outside shops on the Andersonstown Road. The car had been left by three men wearing dark glasses and carrying walkie-talkies. Sinn Féin members helped clear the area and claimed that the RUC took almost an hour to answer a call from a member of the public.
Poleglass (from Irish Poll Glas, meaning 'green hollow') [6] is an area of west Belfast in Northern Ireland. It is the name of a townland, a modern electoral ward, [7] and a working class suburb. The townland is situated in the civil parish of Derriaghy and the historic Barony of Belfast Upper. [8] It is mainly an Irish nationalist area.