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The working-class enclave of Sailortown was established on partly reclaimed land in the mid-19th century and was Belfast's first waterfront village. [7] It came into being in the period when Belfast's industry expanded and flourished; Sailortown was displayed on an 1845 Belfast street map.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
According to information given to Frank Doherty by members of Baker's family, 1 December bombings were planned by the UDA in the "Rangers Club", Chadolly Street in east Belfast's Newtownards Road area. One of the cars which had detonated in Dublin had been hired from a Belfast car firm by a "well-dressed Englishman" using a stolen driver's ...
The Belfast Dock strike or Belfast lockout took place in Belfast, Ireland from 26 April to 28 August 1907. The strike was called by Liverpool-born trade union leader James Larkin who had successfully organised the dock workers to join the National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL). The dockers, both Protestant and Catholic, had gone on strike ...
A reader of the Austin Answered column tries to remember the name of a bar owned by Lebanese brothers on East Sixth Street. ... Frank King is the 'List King' of lost Austin bars, eateries, stores.
31 January: the UVF beat to death a UDA member on Adela Street, Belfast as part of a feud between the two groups. 19 February: the UDA shot a Catholic civilian dead at his home on Clifton Crescent, Belfast. 17 March: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he drove along Cambrai Street, Belfast. 3 May: the UUAC strike began.