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Murphy was a common surname in Sailortown, albeit traditionally borne by Catholics. [14] Parts of Sailortown were damaged during the Second World War when the Luftwaffe rained bombs down onto Belfast on the nights of 7 April, 15/16 April and 4/5 May 1941, the Docks being a strategic target for the German bombers. Many buildings in Sailortown ...
The Benny's Bar bombing was a paramilitary attack on 31 October 1972 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.A unit from the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group, detonated a no-warning car bomb outside the Irish Catholic-owned Benny's Bar in the dockland area of Sailortown, killing two young girls trick-or-treating in the area: Clare Hughes ...
A Sailortown is a district in seaports that catered to transient seafarers. These districts frequently contained boarding houses, public houses, brothels, tattoo parlours , [ 2 ] print shops, shops selling nautical equipment, and religious institutions offering aid to seamen; [ 3 ] usually there was also a police station, a magistrate's court ...
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Pennsylvania. Many of the ghost towns in Pennsylvania are located in Western Pennsylvania, particularly in the Appalachian and Allegheny regions of the Rust Belt. [1] During the late 19th century and early 20th century, the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania were home to a booming coal industry. [2]
The “Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela” is still missing, and the subject of plenty of conspiracy theories.
The night before the operation, Dolours and Marian went to see a play called The Freedom of the City starring a young actor from Belfast called Stephen Rea. Dolorous had already met Stephen in the ...
Shown here is a medieval sundial that was found built into the upstanding house. Sundials are regularly found in churches dating to the late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods.
Although temporary peace walls were built in Belfast in the 1920s (in Ballymacarett) and 1930s (in Sailortown), the first peace lines of "the Troubles" era were built in 1969, following the outbreak of civil unrest and the 1969 Northern Ireland riots. They were initially built as temporary structures, but due to their effectiveness they have ...